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Career Guidance. A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice! Founded 2011 · 5M members · text posts only

5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.4K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5Mmembers
14.4Kbest post
9Kmost comments
1.7Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Question 100%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Advice 1040 Education & Qualifications 105 Coworkers 18 Edit with your location 18 Resumes & CVs 16 India 4 United States 3 United Kingdom 3 CANADA 2 Toronto 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Should I quit after my manager blocked my internal transfer because I'm "too valuable" to replace?

↑ 14.4K 💬 2.1K question 2026

Redditors who make +$100K and aren’t being killed by stressed, what do you do for a living?

↑ 10.7K 💬 8.3K question 2023

Quitting after 8 years without notice. Am I wrong?

↑ 10.2K 💬 2.1K question 2023

Is it career suicide to refuse a "promotion" that comes with four direct reports and zero pay bump?

↑ 8.8K 💬 2.3K question 2026

My manager just canceled my vacation the day before I'm supposed to leave. Should I finally quit?

↑ 8.4K 💬 2.8K question 2026

Told my boss "I am the best decision this organization has ever made" on my first day as an intern, did I screw up?

↑ 8.4K 💬 2.1K question 2024

Is it crazy to do a 2.5 hour super commute 2x a week for $265k?

↑ 7.1K 💬 5K question 2026

Accidentally screwed over coworkers because of ChatGPT, what do I do?

↑ 6.9K 💬 444 question 2025

Husband fired from IT job for misconduct, 3 kids at home. What’s the outlook here?

↑ 6.7K 💬 1.8K question 2026

My boss is pressuring to tell him where my new job is and the pay. Do I have to tell him?

↑ 6.6K 💬 2.4K question 2023

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/careerguidance, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/careerguidance?
r/careerguidance ("Career Guidance") describes itself this way: A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice. It was founded in 2011 and has 5M members.
How many members does r/careerguidance have?
r/careerguidance has about 5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.7K of its posts; the biggest reached 14.4K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/careerguidance?
"Should I quit after my manager blocked my internal transfer because I'm "too valuable" to replace?" reached 14.4K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/careerguidance.
What subreddits are similar to r/careerguidance?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/careerguidance?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/careerguidance?
Across 1.7K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 02:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/careerguidance?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/careerguidance has 5.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 313 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/careerguidance, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.