Sounds like it might also be their way of weeding out people who aren't going to be a culture fit.

It takes literally 10 seconds to run `ls -la` and `cat` some files to get the information. If that's a problem for an applicant, it's a good exclusion to the funnel.

Like sibling says, on mobile it's a pain. In general, when I look at a job posting, I just want to skim it. I don't want to interact with the webpage in any other way than "reading".

I get it, this is clever. It supposedly weeds out poor applicants. But speaking for myself it just strikes me as annoying.

Do people really apply for jobs on mobile? If I came across it on mobile, I'd just go, oh okay, and read it later on my laptop or desktop.

I'm an admitted anti-mobile person though. I am exceptionally skeptical that the mobile revolution will adequately replace the keyboard/mouse combination for high productivity tasks, and don't wish to see design move entirely in that direction.

No, but I do a lot of reading on mobile.

If I came across it on mobile, how would I even know if I wanted to read it later?

I tried opening this on mobile and it was a horrible experience.

We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

> We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

Most developers do?

Actually, grepping necessary information from the files is more efficient than reading a bloated web page from job site with infinite scrolling where your Ctrl + F is not working.

To be honest it didn't really take more than a few seconds to get the relevant information. So time really isn't the limiting factor here..

It's not supposed to be. It's like proving you can write a hello world. program.

But it's literally

`cat open-positions/devtools-frontend-engineer.txt`

I also hate games, but this is literally obvious. I spent 3 seconds tab autocompleting the file.

It's not really a game..