Recently I came across possibly the best tech job posting ever on Craiglist(via @psam). Its geeky, smart and humorous (again in a geeky way).
I am quoting portions of it below :
To all who Think Themselves a Programmer
We don’t like you. You are a weak, oblong programmer.
We only like amazing, bad ass programmers.
You, dude, are not bad ass.
Just try to implode our faces, and show us your bad-assness. Oblong.
Let us see if you are a programmer worthy of existence……Constant Civilization Annihilation Action with an all technical team.
We are ready to hire the next bad ass super ninja in our 3+ year old company of 5+ ninjas….…You must understand that “Web 2.0″ is a facade along with the other weak terms that exist.
If you have a Computer Degree of any variety and think it is worth anything, then go away and don’t waste our time…Include your Reaction to the list below in E-mail Cover Letter
Hack the ______.
Answer to Life.
LEET
Required From Scratch Cooking:
Write most wicked hello world.
Any language.
You FAIL and we hate you if stuff like this is sent:
puts ‘Hello World’; ## Fail
echo ‘Hello World’; ## Failure
say ‘Hello World’; ## Fail though neat if u know ’say’
print ‘Hello World’; // You are weak.
for (….) { … } /* FAIL */
while ( .. ) { .. } // FAIL FAIL I hate you.
foreach ( .. ) { . } // Better… Fail.
“Hello World”.fluf() ## Cooler… Fail.
‘GET http://blah’ ## Don’t even try. Fail.
0100100001100101 ## Nope. FAIL.
If you are a programmer check out the selected as well as rejected applications here. You are bound to enjoy the list.









Well, that is really the best of nerd stuff I have ever seen..BTW Did you apply?
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Well, they are looking for local programmgers. And anyway, I wouldn’t been probably at the top of their fail list.
You would have had a better chance.