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I appreciate the concept but it's too readable. If you're going to do something like this as an actual test, why not funkify it a little bit to challenge the c
by eitally 16y ago
I appreciate the concept but it's too readable. If you're going to do something like this as an actual test, why not funkify it a little bit to challenge the candidates?
Still, great idea! Coming up next -- Job Description as an infographic!
- emehrkay 16y agoGive the candidate 10/15 before the interview to complete this. Run it and if it fails thank them for their time. I just might do something like this with some html/css/javascript.
- smn 16y agoYeah, truth in that. I'm needing to write a couple more like this, this is the first one. Next one will be an job description for a DB guy with interest in databases in the broadest sense. Not sure how to go about that one yet. I like the infographic idea, any other suggestions?
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoselect * from job_candidates where interest > 0 order by interest desc
- mahmud 16y agoI am sure eitally was being sarcastic. Also, why are you attempting to recruit people who are interested in a subject "in the broadest sense", as opposed to people who live and breath the damn thing? Recruiting people of marginal interest and passing familiarity sounds like a recipe for mediocrity, imo.
- smn 16y agoMaybe my bad choice of words. In the "broadest sense" I meant that we're looking for a DB person who's interested in both relational DBs as well as the complete other side of the spectrum. Still, I think a tongue in cheek infographic could be pretty cool as a job description. True, maybe not so much for databases.
- eitally 16y agoYep, but the infographic idea does sound fun. It might make more sense as a resume for a creative than a job posting, though.
- d0m 16y agoI think they're searching hackers who like clean code and who appreciate tests. It would be strange if they wanted to recruit this kind of people by writing obfuscated code. Also, it's more for fun then anything else. I mean, this could have been simply written on a pdf with: Django experience, >10, etc.
- jimbokun 16y agoAs a job candidate, seeing funkified code would cause me to worry that all of their code looked like that and make me less likely to apply.