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the jobs link is interesting. Takes you to a functioning command line but has no other hints or instructions. An interesting gating function: those who don't know how to proceed further (or can't problem-solve sufficiently to find out) aren't likely to succeed in the role and can safely be excluded.

Might also have the added bonus of being safe from headhunter bot scrapers.

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I see a shell, I type `ls`. It's how life works.

`pwd` -- "where am i...?"

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

That's hands down the best job posting ever made by humans, for humans.

But alas

  $ fgrep -r remote open-positions
  open-positions/community-manager.txt:SF (remote OK)

For me, it seems to be stuck at 'Connecting'. If I mash buttons I can get a glimpse of the command line, even see flashes of messages if I enter two-letter commands quick enough. Is this a bug or part of the test?

Hmm, weird. What browser/OS? Also any errors in the JS console?

ublock origin causes it to timeout with 2 caught scripts, disabling it makes it work FYI.

Do you have any browser extensions running? It's possible one of them is causing some problems with their IDE.

Same issue. iOS w/ Safari & Chrome

link: https://repl.it/site/jobs

it's built with repl.it too: https://repl.it/@util/jerbs

I tried

  rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

It didn't work :(

Homestar Runner reference?

Or South Park. "They're taking our jerbs!"

thats the most fun I've had with a jobs page ever!

Interesting indeed. Definitely weeds out applicants who are not familiar with the command line.

It also weeds out people who don't have time for "cute" little games like that.

Sounds like it might also be their way of weeding out people who aren't going to be a culture fit.

To be honest it didn't really take more than a few seconds to get the relevant information. So time really isn't the limiting factor here..

It's not supposed to be. It's like proving you can write a hello world. program.

It's not really a game..

It takes literally 10 seconds to run `ls -la` and `cat` some files to get the information. If that's a problem for an applicant, it's a good exclusion to the funnel.

I tried opening this on mobile and it was a horrible experience.

We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

> We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

Most developers do?

Like sibling says, on mobile it's a pain. In general, when I look at a job posting, I just want to skim it. I don't want to interact with the webpage in any other way than "reading".

I get it, this is clever. It supposedly weeds out poor applicants. But speaking for myself it just strikes me as annoying.

Do people really apply for jobs on mobile? If I came across it on mobile, I'd just go, oh okay, and read it later on my laptop or desktop.

I'm an admitted anti-mobile person though. I am exceptionally skeptical that the mobile revolution will adequately replace the keyboard/mouse combination for high productivity tasks, and don't wish to see design move entirely in that direction.

No, but I do a lot of reading on mobile.

If I came across it on mobile, how would I even know if I wanted to read it later?

Actually, grepping necessary information from the files is more efficient than reading a bloated web page from job site with infinite scrolling where your Ctrl + F is not working.

But it's literally

`cat open-positions/devtools-frontend-engineer.txt`

I also hate games, but this is literally obvious. I spent 3 seconds tab autocompleting the file.

I know it's a brave new world, but there isn't a single working developer that isn't at least aware of the command line, right?

I'd say "aware" and "familiar with" are two totally different groups. And while I'd agree that "aware" seems like it'd approach 100% of the general programmer pop., from my experience "familiar with" is a surprisingly and saddeningly lower than 100% percentage.

There are lots of developers that have a build system with ide etc set up for them and never touch the CLI for years. Think iOS and .net

The jobs link is fun but seems very slow/laggy on my end.

A lot of the text is overlapping for me on mobile.

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