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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Hardcore Coding Bro Ready To Crush Some Code"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“You write fast, efficient and safe code”

I don’t think any of that is possible on a blockchain.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Here's an article about it: https://dev.to/maggiecodes_/how-i-applied-to-a-tech-job-using-a-post-request-193d

The thing that annoys me is the response. It should return status 201 created and the id of the new resource for future delete/update operations. Instead it returns 200 ok and some clear text. Wouldn't want to work with such an API.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

/serious Well, yes, most APIs are meant for system-to-system interaction, that's kind of a given. But since this particular API is clearly meant for human-to-system interaction, returning a human-readable response is adequate. Yes, a better design would probably allow the client to specify additional parameters about the desired response.

/back-to-jokes Yeah, well this kind of sums up most of my job applications. I send an application and the recruiting people are all like "OK".

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least you do get a response.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Highly understated comment

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cute but I mean... You just copy paste it into postman and fill in the blanks. It doesn't really show anything, it's just novel.

I'm not gonna be as cynical as the other people on here saying that it's because they just want to have a machine/AI process your application. But at the same time I'm gonna be even more cynical, because if they think that machines/AI aren't already processing your PDF resumes, then you're crazy lol

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd be surprised at how many imbeciles a simple step like this will weed out. Lotta unqualified people applying to everything

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I honestly enjoy stuff like this. I'm employed again recently, fully remote and decent pay thankfully, but I do appreciate stuff like this. It takes some of the monotony out of applying for jobs at least lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I love it. If everyone did that, we could even write a sensible fontend for people, so they can look for a job instead of fighting with some sap module that's not even properly translated from german.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Mmm. It's not going to happen though. Even this company have failed at standardising their own API.

Key for twitter: "twitter": Key for discord: "discordUsername":

Why are they inconsistent?! Who wrote this? Who signed off on it?!

Oh, and for GitHub you provide a url but for twitter and discord it's just the username?! But the twitter handle has to be prefixed with @. Why?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just send it with both "discord" and "discordUsername" for compatibility.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Twitter is even worse. I don't have twitter, I don't want twitter, I don't need twitter and neither does anybody else. On top of that, twitter is dead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It says optional in the comment behind. Would be even better if they allow custom fields for Mastodon and Gitea links.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

But have your heard of x? *wink"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit Execs hate this one trick.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it, but it's a dick move to require that the resume be hosted at a remote URL. Lots of developers don't have their CV on a website, and one of the strongest devs I've met doesn't even have a LinkedIn profile.

Support a file upload or just Base64-encoded data and you've got something here though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'll never, ever, put anything on LinkedIn. It's cancer

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Front end developer must have rage quit 😁

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who sends API requests if not frontend developers?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Honestly as far as hiring for this stuff goes, this is more in the "cute" category for me rather than the "annoying" category.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like this for technical roles. Or tech companies in general. That said, they don't have any job descriptions or requirements beyond the API request so it's not easy to tell what they're looking for or how qualified you are. Plus there's no posted salary range

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The terms "super power" and "code ninja" takes a lot of the offers credibility in my eye.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"blockchain" tends to be rather iffy too, especially since it's seemingly inevitably tied with cryptocurrency or something like it in some form or another.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't get past "Verbwire". Like they picked the second half of the name, but then creativity ran out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"I know you want a name ending in wire, but all other Verb-wire names are taken!"

Exec: "Verbwire, perfect! Send the memo out"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Actually pretty cool idea. :)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it just me, or does their sample request use invalid JSON? The keys should be in quotes, comments aren't in spec (but commonly supported), and trailing commas are invalid as well (but commonly supported).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I really like this 'new' ProgrammerHumour

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • Needless hoop to jump though - red flag 1
  • Having not switched to GraphQL - red flag 2 /s
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can book this as a service for only $499/$999 per month from a dodgy website with no company adress but bold claims about time savings. Lol. Source: https://applybyapi.com/#pricing

But the best thing is: you can't send your open jobs by API. You need to use a rich text editor:

Post your job Upload your logo and use our easy rich text editor to make your posting shine. Unlimited job postings are included with every plan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

…this is literally something an intern could write in a single afternoon.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's stupid. Any company who wants to hire people via API has the ability to set up the API.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

API is not versioned. Also REST API should not use verbs in their endpoint. POST is already the HTTP verb -- /submit is superfluous.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the picture, it doesn't appear they ever claim to be a REST API.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If course not, it's to apply for a job. It's a WORK API.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just use Postman.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Honestly that's more user friendly than 9 out of 10 application forms I've run into.

The best way for me to avoid this mess for now has always been an email with my pdf files attached.

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