r/careerguidance

Career Guidance

A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice!

Members: 5,042,351
Created: 2011
Posts a day: 117
Avg comments, top posts this week: 244

r/careerguidance is a Reddit community with 5,042,351 members, created in 2011. It averaged about 117 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 132 and an average of 244 comments each. Job, company and career are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 00:00 UTC, and most often on a Wednesday.

Only approved members can post in r/careerguidance.

Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

What people ask

8,885Is it career suicide to refuse a "promotion" that comes with four direct reports and zero pay bump?2,346 comments · September 28, 2026
11,542How do I professionally refuse to train a new hire making $22k more than me after my boss claimed promotions were "budget frozen"?2,304 comments · September 29, 2026
14,746Should I quit after my manager blocked my internal transfer because I'm "too valuable" to replace?2,166 comments · September 25, 2026
8,246My biggest client offered me a job after my boss skipped our meeting. Do I tell my company?1,944 comments · October 7, 2026
5,921My company offered me almost double my salary to move into one of their hotels for 6 months and secretly fix the operation without giving me a management title?1,892 comments · September 30, 2026
6,167Direct report is burning out and refuses to take PTO, but I know she's on the layoff list for next month. What do I owe her?1,509 comments · October 12, 2026

Common words in titles

job 15
company 12
career 10
pay 7
offer 6
promotion 5
title 5
advice 4
boss 4
did 4
manager 4
offered 4

Best time to post

00:00 UTC · 3 top posts
17:00 UTC · 2 top posts
11:00 UTC · 2 top posts
Wednesday · 8 top posts
Friday · 4 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 25 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

Rules

Specific Questions Only
No Advertising
No Personal Attacks
No Link Posts
No Begging
No Sob Stories
Use Post Flair

How to post in r/careerguidance without breaking its rules

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Member growth

We started recording r/careerguidance member counts on October 18, 2026. Growth will show here once we have a few weeks of history.

Get this data from the API

Every number on this page comes from ChatterAPI's Reddit endpoints and is refreshed about once a week. You can pull the same data for any subreddit from your own code or AI agent.

curl "https://chatterapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddits/careerguidance" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHATTERAPI_KEY"

{
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/careerguidance/",
    "name": "careerguidance",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "Career Guidance",
    "createdAt": "2011-12-24T23:33:44.000Z",
    "description": "A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice!",
    "subscribers": 5042351
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

Recorded response, October 18, 2026, trimmed.

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Questions about r/careerguidance

How many members does r/careerguidance have?

r/careerguidance had 5,042,351 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.

How active is r/careerguidance?

Based on its newest posts, it got about 117 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts averaged 244 comments each.

When is the best time to post in r/careerguidance?

This month's top posts in r/careerguidance went up most often around 00:00 UTC, and most often on a Wednesday. That's when popular posts were published, so use it as a starting point, not a rule.

Can I get r/careerguidance data through an API?

Yes. Call GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/careerguidance for members, rules and description, and GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/careerguidance/posts for its posts. Each call costs 2 credits, and new accounts get 100 free credits.