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Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by tomp »

Gravityloss wrote: post #124
ShinTakuya wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is that if you crack it, they should send you to some unique link. Even if it's not super hard, it at least proved some level of technical competency and do should allow you to prioritised interview access (maybe at least skipping initial screening).

It works in reverse - you probably wouldn't want to work in such an environment with frustrating practices towards developers.

What frustrating practices? I'm a developer (and mathematician), and I love puzzles :)

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by ahmetkun »

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.

It's also in the robots.txt file.

  User-Agent: bender
  Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by isiahl »

m0dest wrote: post #50

When Google was working on the first Chromebook, they decided to give away some prototype Chromebooks to developers for free. There was a web form to request one. A small portion of the requests were granted. But they also took a more targeted approach: If you appeared to be a frequent user of the Dev release channel of Chrome (unstable), an offer would appear on the New Tab page to immediately claim a prototype Chro…

Ah, the CR-48! I was watching the Google I/O when it was announced, and they shared a link to request the prototype. I filled it out right as they showed it and a couple weeks later I had a new laptop on my doorsteps. I was around 11 at the time so my mom so it first and thought it was like a bomb. The packaging for it was really cool, I won't forget it and it came with a bunch of dope stickers.

I'm even still in the Google Group for the testers, but now and days it's mostly people talking about how the hinges broke on theirs.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by dylkil »

Maxious wrote: post #140
m0dest wrote: post #50

When Google was working on the first Chromebook, they decided to give away some prototype Chromebooks to developers for free. There was a web form to request one. A small portion of the requests were granted. But they also took a more targeted approach: If you appeared to be a frequent user of the Dev release channel of Chrome (unstable), an offer would appear on the New Tab page to immediately claim a prototype Chro…

If you do a lot of searching for development keywords on Google, you get invited to https://www.google.com/foobar/

ive been searching development keywords for the guts of 5 years now, no invite.... i guess im not worthy

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by otachack »

isiahl wrote: post #143
m0dest wrote: post #50

When Google was working on the first Chromebook, they decided to give away some prototype Chromebooks to developers for free. There was a web form to request one. A small portion of the requests were granted. But they also took a more targeted approach: If you appeared to be a frequent user of the Dev release channel of Chrome (unstable), an offer would appear on the New Tab page to immediately claim a prototype Chro…

Ah, the CR-48! I was watching the Google I/O when it was announced, and they shared a link to request the prototype. I filled it out right as they showed it and a couple weeks later I had a new laptop on my doorsteps. I was around 11 at the time so my mom so it first and thought it was like a bomb. The packaging for it was really cool, I won't forget it and it came with a bunch of dope stickers. I'm even still in the…

My then-roommate got one and I remember being impressed at the lack of branding. All laptops until then have had a company logo.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by eyelidlessness »

rajeshrajappan wrote: post #120

https://gusto.com/ has something in the dev console. Its like a treasure hunt.

I was curious about this one, so I took a look.

         _____ _    _  _____ _______ ____
        / ____| |  | |/ ____|__   __/ __ \
       | |  __| |  | | (___    | | | |  | |
       | | |_ | |  | |\___ \   | | | |  | |
       | |__| | |__| |____) |  | | | |__| |
        \_____|\____/|_____/   |_|  \____/

    Hello from Gusto! Curious about how we work?

    "Peek" through the "window" to find out.
Okay, weird, but might be cool.

    window
Right at the top there's a bunch of junk that their third party scripts add... yuck, but totally common. But there's a bunch of other stuff that they clearly add to the global namespace for normal operations too. Yuck! Is this how you work?

Anyway, not fully caffeinated yet so I just scroll randomly (a standard `window` is enormous as it is, so there are surely needles in this haystack but I'm not getting methodical just yet).

    method: "trackPii"
This appears to be a part of their internal analytics. D:

I'm gonna stop right here because I don't really want to learn more, and I'll just continue my personal preference of never visiting Gusto unless my employer requires me to.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by cameronbrown »

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 seen it in the UK last November.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by kyle-rb »

fullstackchris wrote: post #74
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…

> only hackers read source-code maybe I'm behind the times, but is 'hacker' now colloquial to mean 'anyone who codes'? Plenty of normal software engineers / devs, who are by no means 'hackers' (myself included) read the source code.

You're actually too far ahead of the times.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by pmarreck »

dylanz wrote: post #48
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.

A perfect "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment! If anyone is unfamiliar, it refers to the movie "A Christmas Story". The moment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU I first saw that movie a only a couple years ago and quickly realized how many pop culture references come from it. It does such a good job of capturing a period of time in North America. Even before I saw the movie, eating out at a Chines…

It was a reference to an actual ad campaign, I believe, for a real product
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