I recently tweeted about a job application experience where I had to send my application using a POST request.
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I'm always intrigued by astonishing ways companies choose to test their API! 😅
Quite astonishing!
Sometimes companies get extra creative when hiring talents.
Years back, I have seen a website (not recalling which) that had a few Front-end developer jobs posted in the HTML source code of their website. You will see it only if you do "View Source" from the browser (or Inspect) and the normal people won't see the postings ever.
The other website had some weird Javascript which prints job postings to the console which is viewable only if someone opens up the Dev tools and the JS console in that browser.
It's fun reading your experience, and claps for choosing the creative way instead of the normal way!
You are talking about "Automattic".
I just checked Automattic, they write a link to the JS console, but I remember seeing some ASCII arts or job postings in the HTML source code and console.
I did a Google images search and found that Flickr and The Guardian are still having such job postings in the HTML source.
Ah. Thought you were talking about Automattic. Thank you though.
Yes, the creativity makes the job hunt a much more fun process! Those all sound like fun ways to engage the applicants. Thanks for reading :)
I love this experience and hats off to plaid for being creative with the process.
You should have used cURL for sending the request to be more classy. Lol
They kinda did. Insomnia uses node-libcurl, which is the Node.js bindings for libcurl. 😅
cURL was heavily recommended to me on Twitter, so I'll be using it next time I apply by API lol
What about cURL on a script in GitHub Actions which triggers when the commit message has "job" in it?
Loved it, thanks for sharing ❤️
Thanks for reading :)
Excellent idea and even better description.
Bravo!
And thank you for sharing it all
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Thanks for reading :)
cool !!
Badass
💪💪💪
Ha, that's really cool. Great idea from the company
Epic!
Brilliant. Props to Plaid and thanks for sharing!
Very creative from the company, nice stuff
Could you also share your interview experience at this cool company? Plaid.
Unfortunately, I never got a chance to interview with them. Sorry :)
Awesome!
Haha Interesting and pretty nerdy way XD
Is it still possible to do this? I do not see an option to apply via api any more