Next dream job can be in an HTTP header • Hacker News Board

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

#31

Post by guessmyname » Fri, May 15, 2020, 5:12 AM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #23

Just telling people to apply to domain.com/jobs is pretty lame. So, basically the same door that anyone else goes through when they click the "Careers" link in your site's footer? Reminds me of when I solved one of the CTF challenges for a website only for my reward to be "We're hiring! Apply at jobs.example.com!" Real "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment.

> Just telling people to apply to domain.com/jobs is pretty lame. So, basically the same door that anyone else goes through when they click the "Careers" link in your site's footer? Reminds me of when I solved one of the CTF challenges for a website only for my reward to be "We're hiring! Apply at jobs.example.com!"

That reminds me of MI5’s Coding Challenge [1][2][3].

[1] https://cixtor.com/blog/mi5-coding-challenge

[2] https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/opportunities/coding-challeng...

[3] https://www.mi5.gov.uk/sites/default/files/styles/puzzal_ima...

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by znpy » Fri, May 15, 2020, 5:18 AM UTC

I've found similar headers in emails.

For example, I was setting up a sieve-based filter for Groupon emails and there was this x-recruiting header.

That was nice.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

#33

Post by bdcravens » Fri, May 15, 2020, 5:23 AM UTC

I found one in my favorite niche streaming audio site. I actually went through the process - there were actually a few steps to get to the actual email address. I sent them an email even though I wasn’t on the market :-)

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

#34

Post by mholt » Fri, May 15, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

galaxyLogic wrote: post #25

I had a similar idea for financing Open Source software projects. The contributing sponsors would get their URL and add-text into a comment at the top of the source-code. The bigger your sponsorship the higher up in the list your company will be. The adds would of course be targeted at hackers, such as come work for us, since only hackers read source-code. So it would be a very targeted ad (like the http-header thing…

Don't do it.

People will hate you for it... and never, ever let you live it down. :-/

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

#35

Post by achillean » Fri, May 15, 2020, 5:35 AM UTC

There are quite a few things that people put in their HTTP headers. You can search for these types of jobs:

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=x-recruiting

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=x-hacker

You can also find tributes to people such as Terry Pratchett:

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=x-clacks-overhead

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

#36

Post by twicetwice » Fri, May 15, 2020, 6:04 AM UTC

Is anyone else annoyed this is being publicized? It pretty much destroys any value that noticing the header might have as a signal. Granted the signal strength was probably pretty low already, as other commenters have pointed out, but blog posts like this must decrease it even further.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by adiscretion » Fri, May 15, 2020, 6:08 AM UTC

The job note in the header of https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ contains a little fire spitting dragon. A nice touch to grab the attention.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by jedberg » Fri, May 15, 2020, 6:09 AM UTC

For a while we had a recruiting message in the reddit headers. We also had this for many years:

    x-Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass

We also had this for a long time:

    Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --

Sadly, it looks like it was removed when they switched from haproxy to varnish. They did put this in though:

    x-moose: majestic

So that's something I guess.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by naniwaduni » Fri, May 15, 2020, 6:14 AM UTC

twicetwice wrote: post #36

Is anyone else annoyed this is being publicized? It pretty much destroys any value that noticing the header might have as a signal. Granted the signal strength was probably pretty low already, as other commenters have pointed out, but blog posts like this must decrease it even further.

The audience for blog posts like these is probably pretty similar anyway.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by robin_reala » Fri, May 15, 2020, 6:16 AM UTC

znpy wrote: post #32

I've found similar headers in emails. For example, I was setting up a sieve-based filter for Groupon emails and there was this x-recruiting header. That was nice.

A job building HTML emails for Groupon? I guess someone has to do it, but I don’t envy them.