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      /serious Well, yes, most APIs are meant for system-to-system interaction, that’s kind of a given. But since this particular API is clearly meant for human-to-system interaction, returning a human-readable response is adequate. Yes, a better design would probably allow the client to specify additional parameters about the desired response.

      /back-to-jokes Yeah, well this kind of sums up most of my job applications. I send an application and the recruiting people are all like “OK”.

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        Hey, that’s me! I query my workforce data from the HRIS with M and SQL. In HR land, that makes me a super senior data scientist compared to VLOOKUP guy who hasn’t even heard of XLOOKUP or even INDEX/MATCH, that asshole.

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      That’s better than some I’ve seen. Like 200 for everything and the text could even be “error”.

      Or 500 with the text “invalid input”

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      I also notice that the job you apply for seems to be a different value than what is displayed on the page. Seems like the documentation needs updating as well 😔

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      Twitter is even worse. I don’t have twitter, I don’t want twitter, I don’t need twitter and neither does anybody else. On top of that, twitter is dead.

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        It says optional in the comment behind. Would be even better if they allow custom fields for Mastodon and Gitea links.

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          Until they redirect twitter.com to x.com and not the other way, and actually change twitter on the site, it’s still twitter but with a new logo.

          I suspect eventually he’ll do that though.

          I never quite understood the point of twitter though, so never had an account. I dare say there’s less chance I’ll get one now.

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            For me Twitter was and I guess still is the best thing for immediate notifications of stuff you like.

            I used it for notifications about preorders of limited editions, news, people, etc. It wasn’t perfect as some accounts are quite spammy but it was the best thing out there. RSS isn’t used as much nowadays, newsletter usually are sent at certain time or delayed so not very immediate and Idk what else is out there sort from those two (or using an equivalent social account).

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            Always will call X as Twitter. Same as Meta as Facebook Inc, Microsoft 365 as MS Office, or whatever other companies unnecessarily rebranding themselves these days with their ugly less iconic logos.

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    I love it. If everyone did that, we could even write a sensible fontend for people, so they can look for a job instead of fighting with some sap module that’s not even properly translated from german.

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      Mmm. It’s not going to happen though. Even this company have failed at standardising their own API.

      Key for twitter: "twitter": Key for discord: "discordUsername":

      Why are they inconsistent?! Who wrote this? Who signed off on it?!

      Oh, and for GitHub you provide a url but for twitter and discord it’s just the username?! But the twitter handle has to be prefixed with @. Why?!

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      SAP developement has become international, even the german version is badly translated. Paired with industry best practices (this is what Volkswagen does, with a little customization you can adopt it for your beauty salon) it will make businesses thrive!

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      I wish we just had a standardized format for resumes. Then as you say various front ends could just formatted however was most convenient for the reviewer.

      Besides it’s almost all handle by AI these days anyway so there isn’t a lot of point making it look flashy.

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    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

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

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        “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.

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          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.

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            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

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    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.

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    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: https://applybyapi.com/#pricing

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

    Post your job Upload your logo and use our easy rich text editor to make your posting shine. Unlimited job postings are included with every plan.

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

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    Cute but I mean… You just copy paste it into postman and fill in the blanks. It doesn’t really show anything, it’s just novel.

    I’m not gonna be as cynical as the other people on here saying that it’s because they just want to have a machine/AI process your application. But at the same time I’m gonna be even more cynical, because if they think that machines/AI aren’t already processing your PDF resumes, then you’re crazy lol

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        I’d pass so hard. Thank goodness the only “interviews” I’ve ever needed in 30 years have been the polar opposite of this kind of cringe.

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

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    I honestly enjoy stuff like this. I’m employed again recently, fully remote and decent pay thankfully, but I do appreciate stuff like this. It takes some of the monotony out of applying for jobs at least lol