- This time, it's for a regular full-time employee position.
- This position comes with benefits.
- You don't have to be a superstar programmer, if you make up for it by being a superstar Unix admin, systems architect, or distributed databases expert.
- You must be legally able to work in the United States
- You'll have to physically be in our offices in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood for something in the ballpark of "normal business hours"
To apply, you'll need to solve a puzzle. We're only accepting resumes sent in via www.reddit.com/apply/X, where...
- X = A * B * C * D
- A is the first byte of the ICMP section of the packet that a router will send back when it sees a ping which has hopped too many times
- B is the integer nearest to how much an Olympic-sized swimming pool of the minimum depth would weigh, in gigagrams, if it were filled completely with solid gold
- C is the four-digit year in which the company whose data-link layer addresses look like 08:00:09:??:??:?? registered its primary domain name
- D is the decimal HTML entity for the Unicode character "ℜ" (which is not the same as the ASCII letter "R")
Here are the answers from the previous puzzle:
- A = 2010031103, at the time of posting.
- B = 86400
- C = 47
- D = 22