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Comment by tptacek | Hacker News Reader

Well, for starters, we've paused hiring for a few months on the role it pertains to?

Once again: this started as a hiring challenge, and Ben and Kyle overperformed and made it something more interesting. I guess we could have waited a few months and ran this at a time when we could metabolize more platform candidates, but, once again: this isn't a recruiting thing.

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If you're not hiring, maybe you should remove this call to action implying you are at the bottom of the post:

> We reserved this last challenge for evaluating our staff engineers at Fly.io. So if you think you'd be up to the challenge, we'd love to talk to you.

We're happy to talk. But the first thing you'll hear from us is "we've paused platform hiring for a couple months".

Looks fun and interesting. I will say your recruiting call at the end made some of the devs where I work swear off your service... I think there have been enough scams in this vein that it rubs certain people in a bad way.

Sorry, what? A company blog post that links to their jobs page means you won't use a service? Do you just not use any service that advertises? How do you get Internet access?

I'm not that sensitive and have loved recruiting code games/challenges put out by other companies (like Scribd's AI recruiting game way back...) I was just noting that when I shared this link with my extended team, there was a pretty negative reaction because of how this type of thing has been used in the past by unscrupulous actors.

Our "recruiting call at the end" of what? I'm sorry, I don't understand. This post isn't advertising a new service; it's literally just a series of blog posts.

I am not passing judgment, but it’s literally the last sentence of the link. Personally, I don’t see any problems.

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