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Apple Looks For Exceptional Engineer With a Secret Job Posting (9to5mac.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A hidden Apple website that hosts a job description and invitation to apply for an important position has recently been discovered. The posting describes a role that should be filled by a "talented engineer" who will develop a critical infrastructure component for the company's ecosystem. Discovered late yesterday by ZDNet's Zach Whittaker, the secret posting was found at us-west-1.blobstore.apple.com (now pulled). The posting stated how critical the role is, the scale of the work, key qualifications, and a description of the type of employee Apple is looking for. In the "How Critical?" section Apple says that the engineer will be working on developing infrastructure that will deal with millions of drives, tens of thousands of servers, and Exabytes of data.
Because I just applied and was accepted, so none of the rest of you need apply!
Oh, and possibly Frist Psot!
So many IT storage closets to clean, so little time between Slashdot comments.
the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you KEEP IT A SECRET!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The secrecy isn't helpful. Other people do work at that scale on "critical" systems.
I think this is at least the third "secret posting" I've heard about recently. I'm also thinking about the:
- "Searches for Python leads to Google job application" thing (https://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job)
- "IT job postings for Hillary Clinton's campaign in campaign site source code" thing (http://cybertical.com/assets/docs/Hack_All_The_Candidates_Thotcon_2016_Jonathan_Lampe_InfoSec_Institute.pdf)
I worry that these kind of "secret postings" might violate some "equal opportunity" regulations, but they do seem like a clever idea.
Anyone who thinks they didn't already have someone lined up for this position and were just semi-posting it for legal reasons has no idea how the job market really works.
The ASCII art and the entire posting done in ASCII? Awesome, sounds interesting. High performance, lots of data, sounds like a serious challenge? Yes, yes, keep going.
Java 8? One of these things is not like the others...
no, your name does not have to be Buckaroo, nor do you have to be frontman for a band, either.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Looking for a good time Big Boy? Do you LOVE Cocoa Touch ??
Here at Apple, we have LOTHS of round and shiney for your gay.
Come be gay, and go totally bald with us.
We like round and thmoooooth.
Why doesn't Apple create a challenge like the GCJ, Google Code Jam. To deal with that amount of data and infrastructure, elaborated algorithms are required ; this is the way (one way) Google finds talented devs.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Do you people who work in this industry really talk like that?
Because normal people don't and that's probably why you don't understand why Donald J Trump is president of the United States.
Just saying...
I'm gunna call your new employer and complain about your frist psots.
if it's a "secret" and highly specialist skillset it's likely to be for an H1B1 visa application "conform with the advertising in the USA so you can prove there were no applicants suitable" compliance. of course that is now completely messed up as they would be deluged with applicants by now...
See, when no one responds to the secret job posting (since no one knows about it), Apple will then say, "See? We posted this job and we didn't get a single applicant. We need more H1-Bs."
Hold on now. What are the benefits like?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Watch out! You're going to cut something being so edgy!
I've seen something like six different variations of this story show up on my news feed from about six different technology blogs at this point.
Something tells me that this job posting plan backfired, and now they are getting thousands of resumes from rookie developers who are nowhere near being qualified for that job.
Given the wording of the posting's opening, this sounds like one of those treasure hunt listings. You know, some ad somewhere has a cryptic nerd or math puzzle that you solve that leads to a web site. Google used to do that a lot. The presumption is that only qualified candidates would even see the final listing.
We've been hiring for some engineering roles having to do with large-scale data and related systems and we started out by posting on our website, on some major job search databases, and on LinkedIn. We got tons of interest. Tons. And we are not a particularly well-known company and the positions were run of the mill mid-senior level. There was nothing too remarkable about the postings.
We did get a decent group of very good applications, but there was a huge amount of nonsense to go through. Everyone from "right field but low quality and poor qualifications/experience" to "WTF? Why are you even applying for this job? Your degree is in history and your experience is in HR?" ended up in the pile. And we were very specific. A lot of cover letters expressed a great deal of aspiration, rather than a great deal of qualification.
This has always been a thing with candidate seeking, but it seemed significantly worse this time for some reason. The volume was higher, but the ratio was far worse.
I can see why a very well-known, aspirational company might flip the script and make a posting that is discoverable by invitation only for a role that is company-critical.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
Wouldn't something become more dull with the more edges it has?
i already work as a software engineer in San Francisco and make 50k!
How is this news? Slow day?
No, you need not be named Buckaroo, nor do you have to be front man for a rock n roll band.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
secret posting can be used to hire 1HB's and get around rules about having to post the job.
We posted the job and got very few USC's and the ones that we did got failed at X stage. (we all ready had an H1B ready to go and just needed make it look like we tried for an USC)
Been there, done that.
Exabytes are so 2000. If it's not YoDabytes, just hire some tech school dropout.
That is for their CIA/Cloud contract.
must be a job to recreate the Microsoft DMF spec for exabytes of data. haha -- ps. i was there. not sure i am proud of that one but msliger was.. grin and bear it.
and trying for good ol' Apple "mystique"
And oddly, they'll find engineers dumb enough to bite
Re:"Secret postings" are also about H1B bs as well.
But I have head about jobs that kick an we are not what we are looking for with in minutes of applying to it. Like the posting is really closed but we need to keep it open for X time do to HR BS.
You're posting that you broke the law and you're a piece of shit using your actual user name? Wow. No shame.
That is for their CIA/Cloud contract.
Finally, maybe there will be something for CIA to plug into that extra slot in the Mac II (not NuBus).
If put on my CV that have done work for Apple the penalty, in our contract, runs to a 6 digit sum. If leak details about new products that penalty rises to a 7 digit sum. Kind of annoying as it means my CV has holes in it. There are other annoying restrictions too.
We are safely ensconced in the Fortune 500. We are everywhere.
So why do we never see any Fortune 500 managers at the Nazi rallies? But only the same kind of people who get abducted by aliens?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.