Quixey Challenge - Fix a bug in 1 minute, win $100. Refer a winner, win $50.

Liron

Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today until 7pm PST (GMT-8).

Benefits of playing:

You can learn something from our craftsmanship of the algorithms (we work hard on them)
The 1-minute challenge is a rush
You can make money
If you do well you can interview at Quixey

Even if you have zero engineering skills, you can get $50 for referring someone who wins.

Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today until 7pm PST (GMT-8).

Benefits of playing:

You can learn something from our craftsmanship of the algorithms (we work hard on them)
The 1-minute challenge is a rush
You can make money
If you do well you can interview at Quixey

Even if you have zero engineering skills, you can get $50 for referring someone who wins.

Your sense of perspective is troubling.

Because, clearly, it is impossible for something as huge as millions of lives to depend on a an Art academy's decision.

You should also be ashamed of the narrative fallacy that follows

O RLY?

Because, clearly, it is impossible for something as huge as millions of lives to depend on a an Art academy's decision.

Imagine, with every rejection letter the dean of admissions sends out, he has a brief moment of worry: "is this letter going to put someone on the path to becoming a mass murderer?" His sense of perspective would also be troubling, as his ability to predict the difference acceptance will have on his students' lives is insufficient to fruitfully worry about those sorts of events. It's not a statement of impossibility, it's a st... (read more)