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evatronic ,

Wow, I would pass on this job so fast.

Not because it’s hard to fire up curl or something, but because any company that thinks this is a better solution than a human reviewing a resume needs to be smacked. Because you know what the very next step is? They’re going to ask for a resume, and then make you sit through that bullshit where you type your resume into a hundred different boxes into their candidate management system / workday / talento / etc., and promise to “get back to you soon.”

You know how you can check if a candidate can interact with an API? Send them a coding test. Ask questions. Do some whiteboarding with them. This sort of shit is just some HR lackey ninja thinking they’re clever and edgy.

barsoap ,

Because you know what the very next step is? They’re going to ask for a resume, and then make you sit through that bullshit where you type your resume into a hundred different boxes into their candidate management system / workday / talento / etc., and promise to “get back to you soon.”

That’s a lot of assumptions. What I see here is “Do fizzbuzz before we look at your resumee, will you”.

sleepisajokeanyway , (edited )

I mean an API call isn't hard, it cuts down in the amount of resumes probably meaning your resume will be more likely to be looked at. And it let's then know you know the very basics, I've seen some shit on recruiting hell forums and I'm ok with this one. You don't even have to retype anything since the resume field is just a link.

The cringy stuff is "rockstar developer" and ninja, etc. Those are always red flags to me

kresten ,

I really like this ‘new’ ProgrammerHumour

hellishharlot ,

I really like this for technical roles. Or tech companies in general. That said, they don’t have any job descriptions or requirements beyond the API request so it’s not easy to tell what they’re looking for or how qualified you are. Plus there’s no posted salary range

Klame ,

The terms “super power” and “code ninja” takes a lot of the offers credibility in my eye.

OwlPaste ,

Once had an applicant with “Excellent Excell skills” on their cv

evatronic ,

Hey, I’m a senior developer with 25+ years’ experience and more languages and tools and stacks and environments and so on that is reasonable to list in a comment. In my decades of experience, finding someone who is legitimately good at Excel is a rarity.

synae ,

Cuz you either graduate to real programming and databases, or languish in some kind of hell where you work in excel all day and have to get good at it to save your sanity

T156 ,

“blockchain” tends to be rather iffy too, especially since it’s seemingly inevitably tied with cryptocurrency or something like it in some form or another.

XaeroDegreaz ,

API is not versioned. Also REST API should not use verbs in their endpoint. POST is already the HTTP verb – /submit is superfluous.

Arigion ,

You can book this as a service for only $499/$999 per month from a dodgy website with no company adress but bold claims about time savings. Lol. Source: applybyapi.com/

But the best thing is: you can’t send your open jobs by API. You need to use a rich text editor:

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athlon ,

…this is literally something an intern could write in a single afternoon.

TheButtonJustSpins ,

Single Responsibility Companies are best practice.

CaptainBasculin ,

I can write an API like this in like 2 hours, this is really not complicated.

zouden ,

That’s stupid. Any company who wants to hire people via API has the ability to set up the API.

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Actually pretty cool idea. :)

TheDarkBanana87 ,

I think, its a good idea. And a cool way to open for job application

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

To be fair, that’s one of the relatively tame and clever one of those.

Arigion ,

And no field to submit my API for answers? I need a phone and a pdf?

pseudorandom ,

Maybe they respond with an ID that you can poll every 500ms for status.

hawkwind ,
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Resume field would get an api endpoint that only returns a json resume, and only if the request header is application/json. And the json resume would have embedded json.

starman ,
@starman@programming.dev avatar

That’s really nice idea

Vlyn ,

Honestly that’s more user friendly than 9 out of 10 application forms I’ve run into.

The best way for me to avoid this mess for now has always been an email with my pdf files attached.

HolidayGreed ,

Front end developer must have rage quit 😁

bleistift2 ,

Who sends API requests if not frontend developers?

Arigion ,

Basically every backend which needs to connect to external services. Like authentication/authorization for example.

VanillaGorilla ,

Obviously the backend developer trying to test the API. Then creating an openapi spec and the frontend developer importing that to not writing the client by hand.

Besides that, that has to be the lamest DTO possible. They could have added some kind of skills array or an embedded address field to make it more than a flat object.

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