Ask HN: Instructions in job descriptions?

Posted by dlipton on Friday July 15, 2011 @03:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I'm looking for a Flash game developer in Montreal (http://bit.ly/pY1jt1) but I want to make sure that I only spend my time on people who are fun and really into their work. So I stuck a simple question at the end of the job: If your goal was to break into a bank with a giant robot, what two weapons would you equip as its arms?

Almost nobody who replied bothered answering the question! I can appreciate that it's a hassle to write a long, well thought-out cover letter, but am I being too picky here?

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Re:Ask HN: Instructions in job descriptions? by dpapathanasiou on Friday July 15, 2011 @04:47PM (#2769028)

"I can appreciate that it's a hassle to write a long, well thought-out cover letter, but am I being too picky here?"

Don't ignore your own application requirement.

Answering the robot question should be what's in the cover letter; anyone who ignored that, or sent you some boilerplate they'd used elsewhere, is not the person you want.

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Re:Ask HN: Instructions in job descriptions? by ayers on Friday July 15, 2011 @04:54PM (#2769051)

No you are not being too picky. Answering that one question somewhere in the cover letter will not be a big deal to someone who is actually interested in the job.

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Re:Ask HN: Instructions in job descriptions? by petervandijck on Friday July 15, 2011 @03:56PM (#2768837)

Clickable: http://bit.ly/pY1jt1

Short answer: don't use Monster :)

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Re:Ask HN: Instructions in job descriptions? by linorosa on Friday July 15, 2011 @04:14PM (#2768893)

That's right. You might have better luck in places like http://www.techvibes.com/job/global or http://nextmontreal.com/category/jobs/

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Re:Ask HN: Instructions in job descriptions? by kaffeinecoma on Friday July 15, 2011 @04:38PM (#2768988)

Try http://www.hnhackers.com.

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