It also weeds out people who don't have time for "cute" little games like that.
We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.
Most developers do?
I get it, this is clever. It supposedly weeds out poor applicants. But speaking for myself it just strikes me as annoying.
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.
If I came across it on mobile, how would I even know if I wanted to read it later?
`cat open-positions/devtools-frontend-engineer.txt`
I also hate games, but this is literally obvious. I spent 3 seconds tab autocompleting the file.