tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844549485270153160.post776366619508112527..comments2024-02-14T00:37:51.623-08:00Comments on My Blog: A bad job with a very good descriptionAlexander E. Patrakovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370096336423115833noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844549485270153160.post-50004543451375134342022-08-09T21:02:13.779-07:002022-08-09T21:02:13.779-07:00This post has made it on Reddit.
Unfortunately it...This post has made it on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/wkcgea/a_bad_job_with_a_very_good_description/" rel="nofollow">Reddit</a>.<br /><br />Unfortunately it highlighted the fact that the post is not clear enough why this is a bad job. So here is the clarification: I disapprove the product on the ethical grounds, that's the only reason. It is a tool for artificially inflating SEO metrics by means of simulating user activity on search engines and other sites (and that's what I mean by "bad SEO").<br /><br />Still, the post is not about that. It is about a novel technique of presenting the job requirements, and this technique could be applicable for good jobs as well. A somewhat similar technique (challenge with the objective to modify an existing codebase) has also been <a href="https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/01/06/memcached-interview/" rel="nofollow">used during an engineering interview</a> by MemSQL, but the novel thing here was to post the challenge directly in the job description.Alexander E. Patrakovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15370096336423115833noreply@blogger.com