Job description written in Ruby • Hacker News Board

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by charltones » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 12:32 PM UTC

wouterinho wrote: post #8

tolmasky wrote: post #2

Am I the only one who doesn't find these things cute?

I like their puzzle at the bottom and the subsequent page. I for one really like pomegranates.

I wonder how many cover letters they will get with that in them. Fun puzzle, but does it really help selection?

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by brown9-2 » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 12:51 PM UTC

     require 'mad_skills'

this is where I stopped reading.

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by loumf » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 1:12 PM UTC

tolmasky wrote: post #2

Am I the only one who doesn't find these things cute?

It got them to the front page of Hacker News -- a "normal" ad would not have. I'm guessing that there are at least some of us that would look past (or not mind) the ad if the job looked good.

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by mseebach » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 1:17 PM UTC

tolmasky wrote: post #2

Am I the only one who doesn't find these things cute?

I'm wondering if that was inspired by the #songsincode meme on Twitter a short while back.

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by weavejester » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 1:23 PM UTC

I wonder if it would be a good idea to actually include real code in a job description, such as few choice code snippets from the company's source code.

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by eru » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 1:24 PM UTC

shib71 wrote: post #3

tolmasky wrote: post #2

Am I the only one who doesn't find these things cute?

They're trying to be clever and witty. It is starting to look like they're trying too hard. Phrases like "Uber-Productive" and "Super-smart" make it worse.

At least they should use proper Umlaute.

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by eru » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 1:26 PM UTC

weavejester wrote: post #15

I wonder if it would be a good idea to actually include real code in a job description, such as few choice code snippets from the company's source code.

Like something that could be hairy, but isn't. Too show off how pleasant your code is?

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by weavejester » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 1:58 PM UTC

eru wrote: post #17

weavejester wrote: post #15

I wonder if it would be a good idea to actually include real code in a job description, such as few choice code snippets from the company's source code.

Like something that could be hairy, but isn't. Too show off how pleasant your code is?

Yes; something a few lines long that demonstrates a particularly pleasent piece of code from your source tree. Obviously there are limits as to what you can infer from such a small slice of code, but I think it would provide more information about how the company develops software than most job descriptions do.

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by ednapiranha » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 2:17 PM UTC

tolmasky wrote: post #2

Am I the only one who doesn't find these things cute?

Oh god. That's it. I'm going to herd cattle out on a farm that has no internet access and deny that I ever coded anything in Ruby or in Rails. You can tell this company is probably full of assholes farting out half-assed ideas, while jerking off onto their keyboards. Yes, I'm harsh.

Re: Job description written in Ruby

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Post by jhancock » Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 2:46 PM UTC

loumf wrote: post #13

tolmasky wrote: post #2

Am I the only one who doesn't find these things cute?

It got them to the front page of Hacker News -- a "normal" ad would not have. I'm guessing that there are at least some of us that would look past (or not mind) the ad if the job looked good.

All that and they don't bother to mention salary. Seriously, they want someone "super-smart, motivated", blah, blah. They want to suck you dry so millions of women can shop better and for what in return? To piss away your super-smart, highly motivated existence programming Rails? Vision care? yeah, they do apparently have a health policy that through no fault of their own, you can't keep after they suck you dry. So what can you keep? Well, I'm sure the stock option contract is 20 pages of pure "screw you". If it wasn't, why not publish the options contract? They drop the hint several times that this may be a good job for a perv that wants to collect data on millions of women!! What genius thought dropping the "women, hint, hint!" line several times was a good idea.

No, the only thing you walk away from most any job with is $$$cash$$$....they leave that part out!!!

The ad is well written. And cute. But here's my message to companies: Tell us HOW MUCH!!!

wow, I sure woke up on the crabby side of the bed, today ;).