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Comment by redfhendrix | Hacker News Reader

It seems that 90% of the comments have missed the fact that this is obviously hyperbolic satire....

yep.

In light of this being satire, the HN news comments are 10x funnier than the article itself.

Some unsolicited advice (you're lucky, you found out it was a crap company in 2 hours) and some PC outrage (why does it have to be an Asian lady).

And an unnamed Asian lady at that.

It's not really that hyperbolic. Only thing that clued me in was surprise push to production.

A few years back I joined a company that was doing really interesting and very highly technical stuff only to discover that the only bit of that hyperbole that didn't match their antics was the fact by saying "push to production" sort of implies that they are using a revision control system. Which the lot I joined didn't....

I'd also never seen software deployment by RAID before... (or happily since)

Mind you, they were bought for a pile of money and the people who thought the above were a good idea made out like bandits.

After staring at the rabbit, black hole, and troll question for a few seconds and going "WUT?" I started to get the feeling this didn't actually happen.

I thought it funny but tried to start formulating an algorithm - seemed do-able

To me, some important information seems to be missing for it to become a legit brain-teaser: the numbers of rabbits? the number of holes? how does each round work?, etc.

Uh, then count me among those who don't get it.

Me too. Just after reading redfhendrix comment that I actually realized "Oh... indeed".

I read it first as a description, not satire.

No, I really don't get it. It doesn't seem that unlikely to me that some goofballs somewhere would actually push interview code to production, I have come pretty close to that situation myself. (Not saying it's a good idea, just that it could happen)

I commented elsewhere that I was at a talk last week where they presented pushing interview code to production as a great recruiting tactic.

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