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Ask HN: Why do this: “Please mention the word 'crane' in your application”?
I saw a job ad for a startup role which among the list of requirements specifies: "Please mention the word 'crane' in your application". Have you seen this before? Any idea why it's done? What do you think of this practice?
- _the_inflator 6y agoTo check if the candidate read through the profile/anti-bot. I would not use it.
- thanatos519 6y agoMaybe something like this? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
- onion2k 6y agoIt's testing to see if you read the instructions, or to filter out people who cut'n'paste hundreds of applications, or possibly to block bots but I don't really know why someone would write a bot to apply for jobs.