Another Ridiculous Job Posting: Facebook Developer April 12th, 2008

You can't beat Craig's List for great software developer job postings.

[Name Withheld] needs lead developer to build a Facebook application and Widget for new project. Requirements:

  • 2 Years experience with Facebook applications and several launches.

How can you have two years experience on platform that launched 11 months ago?

  • 2 Years experience with building widgets.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  • Experience with fast UI prototyping, rapid iterations, agile web development.

Looks like someone's been browsing wikipedia!

  • Ruby on Rails: Rails experience a plus, PHP, MySQL, CSS/XHTML

Zed was right. Rails is a ghetto.

  • Have professional experience with Restful, RPC, SOAP, and Service oriented architectures

REST:SOAP::functional:object oriented

  • Documented experience building high quality commercial web sites in the area of media, publishing, e-commerce or social networking

Is there a website you didn't cover?

  • Experience with Java, Java parsing, svn, Ajax, XML.

The JVM does a great job at Java parsing.

And Java doesn't really have to do with subversion.

Or ajax.

Or xml... well, ok, it does, but your witty commentary is purely coincidental.

  • Experience is creating scripts to convert data

"Must regularly breath."

  • Great aesthetic sense would be a major plus including experience building user interfaces with a high degree of usability and stickiness. i.e. a great web site experience.

"We don't have a designer."

  • Ability to interpret analytics to adapt site to increase usability and UX.

I don't think anyone else works at this company.

  • 2 plus years experience with MySQL, Oracle, or another RDBMS including data modeling, stored procedures, and SQL optimization.

You're lucky if you find a DBA alone with those skills.

  • 2 plus years experience in designing and creating online consumer websites

Uh, I was joking about the graphic designer.

  • BS in a technical field; MS a plus (or highly relevant experience)

Can you get a Master's in facebook applications?

  • Familiarity with project management and development best practices

If one man had all these skills, who would they need to manage?

  • Experience with creative mash-ups a plus.

I once edited Trigun to Coldplay.

  • Flash

You left out Silverlight, C#, and COBOL.

Instructions: Please email us your resume/CV as a Word doc saved lastname_firstname.doc

Do you think anyone with those skills would touch Microsoft Word?

Contradictory? April 8th, 2008

While running a new test, I came across a pair of great validation errors.

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