Your survey responses are extremely useful to us.

They help us understand whether we're doing any good, and if so what part of our work is actually helping you.

That means we can focus on doing more of the things that are having an impact, and deprioritise those that aren't valuable, or are even doing harm. 

  • All questions are optional, so just answer those you feel like answering.    
  • The survey got a big update in August 2020, so it's useful to fill out again if you last answered in 2019 or earlier.
  • It typically takes about 20 minutes to finish. Less if you skip questions; longer if you write particularly detailed answers.
  • Your answers won't be shared outside the 80,000 Hours and Centre for Effective Altruism teams, unless you give us permission to do so. See our privacy policy.

About You

Name
Do you broadly agree with the basic ideas behind effective altruism?
Which of these categories best describes your relationship with effective altruism?
Did 80,000 Hours play an important role in you becoming involved in effective altruism (i.e. 80,000 Hours was one of the ~3 most important factors)?
At the point at which 80,000 Hours played its role in your involvement in effective altruism, which of the following applied to you? (Check all that apply)
If you've already told us in a previous survey, feel free to give an especially brief answer
Has your career or your career plans changed because of 80,000 Hours?

We’re sorry we've been unhelpful. Thank you for letting us know. It’s really valuable for us to learn about ways our work may be harming people or reducing the expected impact of their careers, so we’d appreciate it if you could leave some feedback to help us improve. 

Please tell us anything you’re comfortable sharing about your experience with 80,000 Hours. If you’re willing, it would help if you were able to talk not only about our effect on your career, but also ways in which we may have affected you personally. 

We've found that non-anonymous feedback is generally more helpful, but if you prefer to give feedback anonymously, feel free to leave the name and email address fields above blank.

Which of these 80,000 Hours programs played a role in reducing the expected impact of your career or affected you personally? (Check all that apply)

Website

Podcast

Job board

One-on-one advising

Headhunting team

In-person workshop or talk delivered by 80,000 Hours staff member

80,000 Hours in general / other

If you feel comfortable please also include a link to your LinkedIn or personal website.
Which, if any, of these organisations, people or books have also influenced your career and your career plans? (Check all that apply)
Which of these things that CEA does influenced your career and your career plans? (Check all that apply)
Which parts of local or university EA groups influenced your career and your career plans? (Check all that apply)
Among all the options listed above, including 80,000 Hours, which has had the largest influence on your career and career plans?
Which of these things that CEA does had the largest influence on your career and your career plans?
Which parts of local or university EA groups have had the largest influence on your career and your career plans?
It might have been the same as your current career path and plans - if you think this is the case please just say that.
Which of these problem areas do you currently think are most pressing? (Check all that apply)
If you hadn’t engaged with 80,000 Hours, do you think you would have roughly the same view of which problem areas are most pressing?
If you hadn’t engaged with 80,000 Hours (but 80,000 Hours still existed), do you think you would have roughly the same view of which problem areas are most pressing?
How different do you think your view would be?
Now consider any jobs, internships, or courses of study that you’ve started (or if haven’t started yet, accepted an offer for) since you first encountered 80,000 Hours. Did engaging with 80,000 Hours play a particularly important role in you choosing any of these (i.e. there’s at least a 30% chance that you wouldn’t have chosen it if not for 80,000 Hours)?
Which of the following did you start (or accept an offer for) for which engaging with 80,000 Hours played a particularly important role in you choosing it (i.e. there’s at least a 30% chance you wouldn’t have chosen it if not for 80,000 Hours)?
What was the most recent thing you started (or if haven’t started yet accepted an offer for) for which 80,000 Hours played a particularly important role in you choosing it?
What does it involve? What is the title of the role?
If >0.9, it means that the person has indicated that 80k has partly caused them to undertake a course of study.
What subject is the course of study in?
Which of these best describes the course of study?
Are any of these other things you’ve done either a job or a graduate course of study (i.e. a Master’s or above)?

From here on, please answer the subsequent questions for the *most recent offer* you accepted for which engaging with 80,000 Hours played an important role, rather than the earlier one(s). 

What problem area is the job/internship/course of study most relevant to?
Which of these 80,000 Hours programs played an *important role* in you doing this job/internship/course of study? (Check all that apply)
Did you find out about the role, or the organisation where you worked or studied, via the job board?
Which of these 80,000 Hours programs would you say was *most responsible* for you doing this job/internship/course of study?
Note that ‘most responsible’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘most recent’. For example, you might have found the specific job on our job board in 2020, but feel the most important effect was in 2018 when you decided to work on that problem area after listening to our podcast.
At the point when you had the contact with that program, were you on a path which might have resulted in a “lock-in” - that is, if you had continued for longer on that path, you would have taken a step after which it would be significantly harder for you to switch paths? An example of a “lock-in” might be starting graduate school, since it represents a commitment that many people are reluctant to turn away from.

Now consider the entire influence that engaging with 80,000 Hours has had on your career and career plans, not just the specific job/internship/course of study we’ve just been asking about.

Which of these 80,000 Hours programs played an *important role* in you changing your career or career plans? (Check all that apply)
Which of these 80,000 Hours programs would you say was *most responsible* for you changing your career or career plans?
Note that ‘most responsible’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘most recent’.
If you hadn't engaged with 80,000 Hours, how likely would you guess it is that something else (a book, another website, conversations with friends, etc.) would have had the same or very similar effect on you within 3 years, such that your career/career plans would end up being very similar to what they in fact are?
Has 80,000 Hours had any negative effects on you or your career (even if those effects were small or were offset by positive effects)?
We would find this information most valuable if we’re able to read about it in the context of the rest of your response, but if you’d feel more comfortable giving the feedback anonymously you can do so. To do this, just open another survey form using this link and answer these questions there.

We’re sorry to hear that. Thank you for letting us know. It’s really valuable for us to learn about ways our work may be harming people or reducing the expected impact of their careers, so we’d appreciate it if you could leave some feedback to help us improve. 

Which parts of 80,000 Hours had these effects? (Check all that apply)

Website

Podcast

Job board

One-on-one advising

Headhunting team

In-person workshop or talk delivered by 80,000 Hours staff member

80,000 Hours in general / other

If you have one available, please tell us more about your background by providing either a Linkedin URL or CV/Resume. 

This information will help us understand your background and the context of your survey response. In rare cases, we might use this to contact you about connecting you with relevant people or career opportunities. 

Please be sure to link to your public LinkedIn page. It should look like: https://www.linkedin.com/in/your_handle/
OR 2) CV or Resume
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File uploads may not work on some mobile devices.
No worries if your CV is a bit out of date.

80,000 Hours staff think it’s important that our programs are valuable for people from various backgrounds. We assess our success at this in various ways, including by collecting demographic data. All demographic questions are optional.

Race/ethnicity (select all that apply)
These categories are from the US/UK census, where a large fraction of our audience live. Please select ‘None of these apply’ if you identify otherwise.
What is the highest level of education you have completed or are in the process of completing?
If you prefer not to answer, just leave blank.

Product Use Questions

Would you be up for answering some more questions to help us understand how you’re using 80,000 Hours and what we could do to make it better?

Job board

Roughly how much time have you spent looking at the 80,000 Hours job board (in total, since you first found it)?
Have you ever applied for a role that you found on the 80,000 Hours job board?
Why not?
If you don’t remember their job title or organisation, we’d welcome any details about the kinds of roles these were.
Were you interviewed or invited to do a work trial for any of those roles?
Did you receive an offer for any of those roles?
Did you accept any of the offers?
There’s no need to repeat yourself if you’ve told us the answer to this in a previous question, as we’ll be able to find your response there.
For example, what did you decide to do instead, and why?
Sometimes people discover an organisation they had not previously heard of through the job board, and then learn about its new role openings by subscribing to the organisation’s newsletter or by checking its vacancies page. Have you ever applied to a role that you found in this way?
If you don’t remember their job title or organisation, we’d welcome other details about the kinds of roles these were.
Were you interviewed or invited to do a work trial for any of those roles?
Did you receive an offer for any of those roles?
Did you accept any of the offers?
There’s no need to repeat yourself if you’ve told us the answer to this in a previous question, as we’ll be able to find your response there.
For example, what did you decide to do instead, and why?
Imagine that you’re trying to find your next role through the job board. Which of the following would most limit how useful the board could be for you? Please select all that apply. The job board roles:
Has the job board helped you in any of the following general ways? (Check all that apply)
Has the job board helped you in any of the following more specific ways? (Check all that apply)
How likely are you to recommend the job board to someone like you?

Website

Which, if any, parts of our website have substantially influenced a *particular career decision* of yours? (Check all that apply)
Which, if any, parts of our website have influenced you in other ways (e.g. helped you learn about the ideas of effective altruism, changed parts of your overall worldview, or helped you succeed more in your current job)? (Check all that apply)

Zooming in on the Key Ideas page (the summary page of all our most important research): have you read a substantial amount of the page -- i.e. spent more than 10 minutes on it? If so, what was your general reaction? (Choose one.)

Have you shared any articles from 80,000 Hours with friends?

Podcast

Roughly how many episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast have you listened to or read the transcript of?
We're always trying to figure out what topics to cover next. What kinds of topics would you like more episodes on? (Check all that apply)
The ~600 word descriptions of each episode we write for our ‘show notes’ and blog posts are a lot more detailed than most podcasts. Do you find those valuable?
Have you ever used these other resources we have for each episode? (check those that apply)
Have you shared any episodes of the 80,000 Hours podcast with friends?
Would you be happy for the information you have entered to be shared with 80,000 Hours’ major donors?
We take ‘major donor’ to mean donors who are giving more than $250,000 per year. We are not offering the option of anonymising your responses as we would need to modify many potentially identifying fields, so if you’re uncomfortable with the full response being shared please just select ‘No’. Several of our major donors make decisions with a committee, so your answers could be shared with a total of around 20 people. We intend to share this information with donors who would find this information valuable, rather than all donors. You can see our donors here. Please consider this to be an especially optional extra.
Would you like a copy of your answers sent to your email address (if you provided one on the first page)?
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