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.

/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”.

At least you do get a response.

Highly understated comment

I send an application and the recruiting people are all like “OK”.

I always have a suspicion that all of the HR department are Rammus.

Nah, clearly all HR are orcs. I once got a “zug zug” as an answer.

/serious If you try with a non-human user agent I would expect it to return something machine readable.

That’s hilarious. Probably the lovechild of some clueless HR dude that thought he was a genius.

The cringe term “code ninja” supports your theory.

Also “rockstar developer” all they were missing is “10x Programmer” to complete the bullshit programmer labels trifecta

Because “code slave” is no longer culturally acceptable for the same role

Hey, that’s me! I query my workforce data from the HRIS with M and SQL. In HR land, that makes me a super senior data scientist compared to VLOOKUP guy who hasn’t even heard of XLOOKUP or even INDEX/MATCH, that asshole.

That’s better than some I’ve seen. Like 200 for everything and the text could even be “error”.

Or 500 with the text “invalid input”

I also notice that the job you apply for seems to be a different value than what is displayed on the page. Seems like the documentation needs updating as well 😔

“Blockchain Developer”

“Rockstar” “Ninja”

“Hardcore Coding Bro Ready To Crush Some Code”

“You write fast, efficient and safe code”

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

With blockchain? Pick one.

I only need 1: ‘Undocumented “feature” generator’

im a for loop developer

We’re looking more for “do”ers, not “for”ers.

Ya I wouldn’t apply to any role at this company if I saw that, that’s a major red flag that their VC money has either run out or is about to lol

Discord username lol

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.

But have your heard of x? *wink"

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

It is not even called twitter anymore

Until they redirect twitter.com to x.com and not the other way, and actually change twitter on the site, it’s still twitter but with a new logo.

I suspect eventually he’ll do that though.

I never quite understood the point of twitter though, so never had an account. I dare say there’s less chance I’ll get one now.

Someone linked to what appears to be original post about it, its from 2020…

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.

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?!

Just send it with both “discord” and “discordUsername” for compatibility.

Years later, we’re still trying to figure out which is deprecated and which is the “correct” field

You could have different versions of the API that have a different requirements.

I bet it just ends up in some poor bastards mailbox anyway. :)

SAP developement has become international, even the german version is badly translated. Paired with industry best practices (this is what Volkswagen does, with a little customization you can adopt it for your beauty salon) it will make businesses thrive!

SAP, the worst thing to come out of Germany since WW2

I wish we just had a standardized format for resumes. Then as you say various front ends could just formatted however was most convenient for the reviewer.

Besides it’s almost all handle by AI these days anyway so there isn’t a lot of point making it look flashy.

Such things exist. They’re just not widely adopted. https://github.com/jsonresume

Actually pretty cool idea. :)

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