March 31, 2015 at 12:07Job invitations hide in HTTP headers
Internet companies have long used the HTML code of web pages to introduce a kind of "Easter eggs". If you delve into the code, sometimes you can come across an appeal to the developers with a job offer. Like, if you are so interested in our code, then come and work on it for money.
This is a pretty banal trick, but recently companies have come up with new tricks. Security Specialist Troy Hunt spoke about an incident that occurred during an information security class in Sydney. One of the students during the exercise from the “ First hack your API ” course (Hunt’s paid course) drew attention to an unusual HTTP response that came through the mobile APIs from the Airbnb server:
Cool, an HTTP header made especially for people! Of course, only those who really study this traffic will see it. Well, those who read the blog of Troy Hunt and Geektimes. There is the email address of Kevin Rice, and this is not some type from the personnel department, but the head of the development department (Engineering Manager). True, now he will have to give birth to a new Easter egg , because the old one burned .
This is not the only invention to attract developers. For example, even Microsoft has inserted an HR ad in the page code of Microsoft Azure. The link sends to the Microsoft Careers page.
Flickr showed much more creativity with its huge ASCII art on the main page.
This is a pretty banal trick, but recently companies have come up with new tricks. Security Specialist Troy Hunt spoke about an incident that occurred during an information security class in Sydney. One of the students during the exercise from the “ First hack your API ” course (Hunt’s paid course) drew attention to an unusual HTTP response that came through the mobile APIs from the Airbnb server:
X-Hi-Human: The Production Infrastructure team added this header. Come work with us! Email kevin.rice+hiring@airbnb.comCool, an HTTP header made especially for people! Of course, only those who really study this traffic will see it. Well, those who read the blog of Troy Hunt and Geektimes. There is the email address of Kevin Rice, and this is not some type from the personnel department, but the head of the development department (Engineering Manager). True, now he will have to give birth to a new Easter egg , because the old one burned .
This is not the only invention to attract developers. For example, even Microsoft has inserted an HR ad in the page code of Microsoft Azure. The link sends to the Microsoft Careers page.
Flickr showed much more creativity with its huge ASCII art on the main page.
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- 42.9% No, have not met 623
- 36.2% No, but read about it 526
- 19.2% Yes, I saw 279
- 1.6% This is how I got a job! 24