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The statement, "an applicant must “hack” into our backend to drop their resume. As a result, we don’t get distracted by unqualified candidates" is interesting.

In particular, equating those who don't have web site hacking skills with "unqualified candidates" is quixotical given this is a position for a site for purchasing concert and arena tickets, and is not work circumventing site security.

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I imagine that the "security" is pretty toothless, but entirely adequate to keep out cargo cult programmers or others without abstract knowledge of web technologies and a problem solving mindset. It's less a security test than an autmated version of Fizzbuzz that good candidates are less likely to find insulting.

just went through the application for shits and giggles (didn't attach anything personal), and yeah it's pretty much what you said, imo a good filter test

Going through the challenge I just realize how many damn addons for firefox don't support 6.0. TamperData though still kinda works after fudging the install.rdf. It seriously lags though.

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