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Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by angrygoat »

guessmyname wrote: post #31
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…

One of the defence agencies in Australia made a puzzle quite a long time ago; I can't find it now. It was a bunch of hex in a banner advert; the hex was actually x86 assembly, which if 'run' would write a string into memory.

The string was just the URL of their recruitment portal. I was so disappointed, once I got it running I was hoping to hear helicopters or a knock on the door!

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by sokoloff »

WilliamEdward wrote: post #60
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.

It didn't have any value to begin with, honestly. Websites have the exact same message in their code simply by inspecting source or opening a console, and that certainly doesn't show you have any sort of skill or curiosity. It's not like the sites are offering you a job, they're saying you should interview with them. I have not heard of anyone getting hired because of this.

I agree it’s not a marker of skill, but I do see it as evidence of curiosity.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by smoe »

PopeDotNinja wrote: post #55
cerved wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round. The jar is round. They should call it Roundtine.

I know you're joking, but I looked it up :) 'Ovaltine was developed in Bern, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for "egg", and malt, which were originally its key ingredients).' [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovaltine

Ha, as a Swiss, from the Bern region, I was thinking whether this strange sounding Ovaltine has anything to do with Ovomaltine and was about to look it up.

In Switzerland, Ovomaltine is among the products with highest brand recognition ever and has a cult status because of their advertisement in the 80s and 90s.

Never knew it was a thing outside of Switzerland

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by nurettin »

adrianN wrote: post #73
nurettin wrote: post #43

Reminds me of the time google mined my search data in order to redirect me to their recruiting pages, but instead of abusing my data in unforeseeable ways, these guys only require that you are able to switch to the network tab of your browser. Pretty neat.

Maybe engineers who are not concerned about Google mining their search data for recruitment purposes are exactly the kind of engineer Google wants to hire.

Yeah, hosing people passing from in front of your garden hoping to get one who appreciates it because he's thirsty or something.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by carlmr »

angrygoat wrote: post #91
guessmyname wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

One of the defence agencies in Australia made a puzzle quite a long time ago; I can't find it now. It was a bunch of hex in a banner advert; the hex was actually x86 assembly, which if 'run' would write a string into memory. The string was just the URL of their recruitment portal. I was so disappointed, once I got it running I was hoping to hear helicopters or a knock on the door!

>I was so disappointed, once I got it running I was hoping to hear helicopters or a knock on the door!

They probably need a lot of people with some tech knowledge. This way they can probably gain the widest audience that is still useful.

If it's too hard to crack, it's unlikely your investment of time in this recruitment measure will actually yield results.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by arethuza »

jedberg wrote: post #38

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.

Maybe custom response header would be the ideal place to insert output from something like Emacs spook:

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/shirt/spook.html

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by chrismorgan »

antigirl wrote: post #67
chrismorgan wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Um, that’s the article this whole thread is about. And it doesn’t answer the question you’re replying to at all.

Thats the custom header on his blog.

Oops, I read that as prose rather than a header. It had been some minutes since I had actually looked at the header value myself. Sorry.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by woutr_be »

blntechie wrote: post #80
saagarjha wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Foobar does it right and lets you skip to actually be considered, which is nice.

Has Google even bothered with Foobar for like past 2-3 years? It appears so frequently on non-incognito searches that surely every developer must have seen it by now.

I've never seen it, but I assume they only target people in the US.
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