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Creative Hiring: Solve the puzzle in this jobs page and get an interview
- amichail 19y agoThis must be the first startup I have seen that is "passionate" about what they are trying to do!
- tlrobinson 19y agoMeebo and Facebook have puzzles too.
- jaed 19y agoUhmmm...check the source code.
- juanpablo 19y agoduh
- insertcoin 19y agothat's pretty pathetic. At least bury the 'puzzle' in a css or js file so that it's not the first thing you see.
- brett 19y agoI'm kind of confused about what the three of you are talking about. Yes, the clue to the puzzle is in the source code; I think that's where they were going with "embedded". "an hour" might be an extreme upper bound, but it's not like getting from the page source to the answer was instantly obvious or trivial. "pathetic" is definitely way over the top.
- drusenko 19y agoit's not really meant to be a hard puzzle, per se (that would be pointless and a waste of time). it's just intended not to be really really easy, and useful enough for us to say "this could be a good candidate" based on getting the correct answer.
- ed 19y agoWell the problem with this puzzle wasn't its level of difficulty, just that it was awkward to complete. It seemed more like a test of my Firebug abilities than anything else.
- drusenko 19y agothe fact that you're using firebug, know some basic concepts, can debug javascript and can formulate your own POST requests puts you above quite a few of the applicants we've seen.
- mkull 19y agoyou failed the puzzle
- llimllib 19y ago< 15 minutes to solve. (I think. I come up with an answer string, but don't see anywhere that it would conceivably go?) Firebug rocks.
- rglullis 19y agoIs this supposed to be an all Javascript puzzle? I am passing the current time, and the damn thing still complains about the wrong token.
- llimllib 19y agopassing the time worked for me
- rglullis 19y agoWTF? function solvePuzzle() { var t = new Date() var time = t.getTime(); var params =""; params += 'pos=solvepuzzle'; params += "&"; params += 'auth=' + time.toString(); new Ajax.Request('/weebly/publicBackend.php', {parameters:params, onSuccess:handlerSolvePuzzle, onFailure:function() { alert('Transmition error. Please try again.'); }}); } solvePuzzle();
- altay 19y agoany other douglas adams fans in the house? =)
- rglullis 19y agoMaybe I shouldn't have read so much Douglas Adams and got a little more focused on learning Javascript. The idea that I still haven't got past the first step pisses me off.
- jamiequint 19y agoIf you don't like JS, curl should be your friend :D
- tlrobinson 19y agoFor the first step, yes... but that's just the first step... And actually, I couldn't get curl to work... I'm guessing I wasn't setting the referrer or user agent right or something.
- tlrobinson 19y agoDoes anyone know of any other job puzzles like this? The only ones I've seen are Facebook and Meebo: http://www.facebook.com/jobs_puzzles/ http://www.facebook.com/jobs_puzzles/ http://blog.meebo.com/jobs#web http://blog.meebo.com/jobs#web
- marcus 19y agohttp://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzles07.html http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzles07.html Has a couple of very nice puzzles. http://www.icfpcontest.org/ http://www.icfpcontest.org/ And ICFP contests are always fun
- veritas 19y agoErm... this maybe a silly question, but how far are we supposed to take this?
- davidmathers 19y agoYou're supposed to construct the most powerful computer that has ever existed. Use it to help you create an even more powerful computer. Then let it compute for 10+ million years, while protecting it from outside interferences. Obviously.
- croby 19y agofun! thanks for distraction at work :)