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Not too shabby. Was pretty trivial to do with Safari's developer tools, actually. I submitted this as my resume: http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/...
Edit: Removed potential spoilers.
Waaay too easy...honestly, I'm not tooting my own horn. But I guess it would keep the lazy applicant from applying. EDIT: on second thought, maybe it is the right level. They aren't likely looking for $100k+ hacker geniuses, just guys who can think outside the box and know how to do basic digging and prevent your typical hack. I retract my statement. Clever application process.
So I would by no means liken this to the Greplin Challenge, but we're trying to accomplish something different. We're hoping to eliminate the crappy applicants so we can spend more time on the good ones.
Regarding whether or not it's too easy...that's something we wondered about. We decided we wanted a relatively straightforward initial screen rather than an complex brainteaser. So I would by no means liken this to the Greplin Challenge, but we're trying to accomplish something different. We're hoping to eliminate the crappy applicants so we can spend more time on the good ones.
Whenever I've been apart of interviewing candidates, ≈70% of the time was wasted on applicants who fluffed their resumé, got an interview, and were obviously not what they claimed to be. This would probably significantly reduce that overhead and at the same time attract people who enjoy coding vs. do it just to pay the bills.
Not too shabby. Was pretty trivial to do with Safari's developer tools, actually. I submitted this as my resume: http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/...
Hmm, did you modify the session cookie? Because that is _not_ trivial with Safari developer tools. Edit: Removed potential spoilers.
Then I guess you'd have to give him the job by default :-)
Regarding whether or not it's too easy...that's something we wondered about. We decided we wanted a relatively straightforward initial screen rather than an complex brainteaser. So I would by no means liken this to the Greplin Challenge, but we're trying to accomplish something different. We're hoping to eliminate the crappy applicants so we can spend more time on the good ones.