r/cscareerquestionsEU rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for computer science and software career questions within the European region. People come here to ask about jobs, salaries, interviews, career moves, and working conditions for software engineers across Europe, including the UK, the Balkans, Switzerland and others. The moderators describe it as a place for careers in computer science or software engineering in general, so the thread running through every post is the working life of a software person in Europe. If your question or story would help someone building a software career in a European country, it probably fits.

The rule that decides most marketing outcomes is “No promotions or advertising allowed.”, which bans promotional posts that link to your own or someone else's content, with one exception: you may link a blog post if you inline the entire post to reddit. “No recruitment or job advertisement.” kills any post made solely to recruit or advertise a job, so hiring pitches are off the table. “Posts must be related to careers in Computer Science.” and “Posts should be relevant within European region.” set the topical fence, so a generic startup story with no career angle does not survive. “Make your post specific and clear.” removes vague or easily searched questions, which matters if you dress up a survey as a question. “No Slop” is short but real, and it tells you low effort filler gets no mercy. Finally, “Be nice to each other.” sets the tone for how you should comment, not just post.

Post a specific, detailed question or story about software careers in Europe. Good shapes include asking how salaries or interviews work in a named country, asking for advice on a real career decision with enough context that people can actually help, or sharing a lesson you learned in your European job search as plain text. If you want to share a blog post, copy the entire article into the body of your reddit post and keep the link secondary. Write like you are talking to colleagues, because the rules ask for exactly that.

Do not post promotions or advertising, because blatant advertisement is immediately treated with a permaban. Do not drop a bare link to your blog, site, or tool, since the community is not a content aggregator and the only tolerated link is a blog post inlined in full. Do not post recruitment or job advertisements, even for your own startup. Do not ask how to find an EU job or how to handle a Schengen VISA, because those posts are discouraged and mostly filtered, and the moderators point people to the FAQ instead. Do not post vague or low effort questions that a web search could answer, because they get removed. Do not go off topic in comments, and do not post slop, which includes generic AI written filler.

The inline your whole blog post rule is my favorite detail here, because it forces you to give value before you get a click, which is exactly how I think about respectful reddit marketing. I also respect that they are blunt about permabans for blatant advertisement, so there is no gray area to test. And the fact that visa posts are filtered by the thousands tells you this room is tired of repetitive questions, which means a specific, well written career post will stand out even more.