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"Aaaaannnnnnnnnnd you're fired." Just kidding. But if none of his friends (including Google employees) knew about this, maybe they (Google) intended for this to
by henpa 11y ago
"Aaaaannnnnnnnnnd you're fired." Just kidding. But if none of his friends (including Google employees) knew about this, maybe they (Google) intended for this to be not known. I hope he didn't shoot his own foot by blogging about it. :-)
- DennisP 11y agoSeems like in that case they would tell him to keep it quiet, instead of leaving a trap that wastes their hiring effort and reveals their secret.
- Maxious 11y agoIf you visit the URL google.com/foobar it won't do anything unless your google account has been offered the challenge. Presumably random searching wouldn't even activate it, you'd need to be in the right country etc. "To log in, you have to have logged in before. Confused? Search on...[google.com]"
- jerf 11y agoA lot of people are posting some variant on this, but, go back and read the post. The only things in the post are 1. this path exists 2. it uses Java and Python 3. it works in a fake shell. But that's it; no problems, no solutions, not even hints. Google probably rotates the problems anyhow. Overall, Google can hardly expect this sort of thing to not get out over time, and... honestly... do you think Google recruiting is upset that this got posted to HN?