Teamstudio is Hiring
We are seeking top-notch senior software engineers to work at our corporate headquarters. Every time we've tried to do this in the past, we get deluged with hundreds of resumes, the vast majority of which are completely worthless. How do you sort the wheat from the chaff? When you think about it, resumes are largely useless. It's too easy to lie, and it's way too easy to email a resume to hundreds of jobs just to see what sticks.
So this time, we decided to take a different approach. We don't want people to send resumes. We decided to ask people to complete a programming task - something that is hard enough to be able to tell whether they are any good, but interesting enough that they will have fun doing it. At least it should be a lot more fun than writing a resume with a covering letter. Plus, the responses will tell us all we need to know about whether this person can do the job or not. The task is detailed below. Interested?
The job:
Languages: C++ and Java on Windows with some Objective C.
Hardware: a range of devices from iPhone to iSeries.
Things you'll be with working on/with: Eclipse plugins, iPhone/Blackberry development, Lotus Notes API, compilers/parsers/interpreters, cross-platform (Win32/64/iSeries/AIX/Solaris/Linux/OS X), build and release automation, unit testing.
The environment:
Our offices are based in the Cummings Center, Beverly, MA. Ideally, we would like you to be office based, but if you live too far away to commute every day, one day a week in the office is OK. Software engineers here at Teamstudio get private offices and a range of great benefits. But the main reason they work here is that they love what they do.
How to apply:
DO NOT SEND A RESUME. Instead, we would like you to complete the task below. Submissions should include your code and any related files, along with any details you would like to provide about the tools and development environment you used, and should be emailed to sserecruit@teamstudio.com. You can use a language of your choice, but keep in mind that most of the code written at Teamstudio is in C++ or Java. This is the only way to apply for this position. We will not accept resumes. If you have technical questions directly related to the task, you can send them to sserecruit@teamstudio.com.
The task:
Write a program that will read a source file written in the LOLCODE programming language and execute it.
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Comments
Posted by Nigel Cheshire At 01:42:15 PM On 05/21/2009 | - Website - |
Which version of LOLCODE? 1.2?
Posted by Jan Schulz At 07:31:59 PM On 05/27/2009 | - Website - |
-Nigel
Posted by Nigel Cheshire At 11:35:39 AM On 05/26/2009 | - Website - |
The way to answer that is: imagine you're building a Teamstudio product. What version of LOLCODE would you support? (Frankly, we're more interested in your approach to solving the problem than in the detail of which version you support.)
-Nigel
Posted by Nigel Cheshire At 09:29:45 PM On 05/27/2009 | - Website - |
If yes, I will write requested program.
Regards
Fabian
Posted by Fabian At 10:12:42 AM On 05/26/2009 | - Website - |