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[–] Arigion@feddit.de 225 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Here's an article about it: https://dev.to/maggiecodes_/how-i-applied-to-a-tech-job-using-a-post-request-193d

The thing that annoys me is the response. It should return status 201 created and the id of the new resource for future delete/update operations. Instead it returns 200 ok and some clear text. Wouldn't want to work with such an API.

[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 174 points 1 year ago (3 children)

/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".

[–] hstde@feddit.de 119 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least you do get a response.

[–] anarchyrabbit@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I send an application and the recruiting people are all like "OK".

I always have a suspicion that all of the HR department are Rammus.

[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, clearly all HR are orcs. I once got a “zug zug” as an answer.

[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

/serious If you try with a non-human user agent I would expect it to return something machine readable.

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's hilarious. Probably the lovechild of some clueless HR dude that thought he was a genius.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The cringe term "code ninja" supports your theory.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago

Also “rockstar developer” all they were missing is “10x Programmer” to complete the bullshit programmer labels trifecta

[–] hikarulsi@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Because “code slave” is no longer culturally acceptable for the same role

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] penguin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

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"

[–] 4am@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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 😔