Just for reference, I ended up getting an interview with that company. They called me and said that they did get a good laugh from my cover letter. I think allot can be said about trying to stick out from the crowd in a hiring situation and getting them to notice you…. just my two cents.
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Hey? Whats the deal? 400+ people per day average poking at my site yet not a single one of you reporting that the newest version of firefox has the css div all broken!? It apparently covers the text so you cant read it! Shame shame. :{P
That is not so great for my job search guys to have busted code rolled out.
Maybe I need to just add a bug button…..?
Oh yea, and leave more comments.. noone ever comments.. :{)
I saw an interesting job posting.
Seemed like I could make myself stick out from the other candidates and also flex my foo skillz while injecting some humor.
———– THE ORIGINAL POST ————-
Who we are: Young, rapidly expanding, web hosting firm specializing in managed hosting (none of that virtual host, answer 1,000s of boring emails).
Who you are: You spend so much time on google it can be called your girlfriend, obviously you have a sense of humor, love technology, would prefer to spend 3 hours resolving why some src doesnt compile rather than using a pre-compiled binary.
What you have to know:
Apache
PHP
MySQL
DNS
FTP
MAIL Servers
Kernel Configuration
Security Hardening
Performance Optimization
TCP Networking
Google and searching for answers
What’s in it for you?
Full-time
Benefits:
Full health
401K
Relaxed work atmosphere
We are people and we like people, so to prove that you are a person who actually read this far, we would like you to list the topics shown at the top of this page and rate yourself on a scale of 1-5 ( 5 being the bee’s knees ). For each topic also provide the experience that you’ve had dealing with it.
Note: to get sugar on top of the Sundae please send resumes as .pdfs
————– END ORIGINAL POST —————
Subject: Meet your fancy new FreeBSD / Linux administrator
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Hello,
As your job posting is a bit unorthodox.. here is a little unorthodox Cover Letter.
#init 5
(1 You spend so much time on google it can be called your girlfriend…
Google, Slashdot, Digg.. the triplets..
(2 Obviously you have a sense of humor..
sorry nope, sent to /dev/null years ago ask the bofh ;)
(3 Love technology, would prefer to spend 3 hours resolving why some src doesnt compile rather than using a pre-compiled binary…
geez again?
I hate it when people do not update the man page with the new syntax…
found fix on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc after bugging my buds in #FreeBSD
What you have to know:
(You mean, what do I know already? Would my foo be rated as Pirate or Ninja? Pirates have guns.. but ninjas own.. come on. They are all stealthy and.. oh.. yea.. ahem.. I’ll get on with it.)
…ninja..
Apache
#/usr/local/bin/apachectl restart
1.3x tree? or 2.x? lighttpd for the win!
PHP
#echo '< ?php $foo = system("echo /etc/shadow", $blah); echo $foo . "\r\n no apache as root silly!"; ? >' | php
MySQL
mysql> select * from job where hiring = “yes”
DNS
#dig whoisthisjobfor.info
FTP
#ncftpget ftp.ajob.info/../../proc/cpuinfo
MAIL Servers
#mail itsabashscript@gmail.com < /home/newjob/.offer
Kernel Configuration
#cd /usr/src/sys ; make buildkernel KERNCONF=HIREME && make installkernel KERNCONF=HIREME
Security Hardening
http://yourowned.org/submit.php?b="outputting with back ticks is bad bad&&nc -l 1337"
Performance Optimization
#echo "options DEVICE_POLLING" >> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NEWJOB
#echo “kern.polling.enable = 1″ >> /etc/sysctl.conf
TCP Networking
#tcpdump -i rl0 -vvv > temp.log
#grep “202.224.45.12″ temp.log
#mtr 202.224.45.12 ^C
#vi temp.log
Google and searching for answers
ssn “003″ filetype:xls
http://mgtclass.mgt.unm.edu/Bose/Excel/Appendix1/Cases/FacultyRevisted.xls (OUCH!… ;) )
If you got this far. I have 5+ years experience in NetAdmin / SysAdmin in a hosting environment and 5+ years programming large scale web applications. I just relocated from Los Angeles back to NY. Your post piqued my interest, I hope this piqued yours as well. I look forward to your call. If not, at least it maybe got a laugh or two out of your office mates. ;)
Best,
(my contact info withheld from the web)
P.S.: I always attach my resume in .pdf. Word stinks because I can not run it on my EEE unless I install Microsoft 0wn3d products. OO is great, but never gets the formatting right… Plus as an added bonus people can not monkey with it.
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Gee, that was a short trip to LA. I am back in NY again. I miss my friends there, but there are lots of new things to see here. It is cold as usual (around 30F or below with snow and/or rain) but the weather does not bother me. I lived here so long ago that the whole place has up and changed. None of the places that I used to go to (bars, restaurants, etc..) are open anymore. This is kind of nice though if you ask me, it is like seeing the city anew again. Check my flickr for new pics, I will start adding them off and on of things going down.
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I am back home for a bit. I will be here for the next week or so just to hang out and take care of some things. Hit me up if you know how to reach me as this will be my last LA tour for a few months. East Coast bound! ;{)
