<story><title>Startup using a custom Portal 2 level to recruit engineers</title><url>http://jobs.wibidata.com/puzzles/portal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouz</author><text>Kind of neat, but strange as a recruitment device: It seems difficult enough to get good people, why would one put such an arbitrary filter as a first barrier? People who don&apos;t play computer games or Portal 2 are probably much less likely to apply that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>I see your point. I&apos;ve been put off jobs in that past where the requirements have listed stuff like &quot;You must kick ass at Xbox games!&quot; for completely non gamedev jobs.&lt;p&gt;Now I love video games as much as the next geek and I&apos;ve always assumed it was a light hearted hint towards company culture rather than a hard requirement.&lt;p&gt;But I just find something a little off about stuff like this, like it sets off a little red light in my brain that I can&apos;t put my finger on.
We would probably think it was weird if they said &quot;we all love cricket so you should too!&quot;, I guess it feels a little patronising to be told &quot;of course you love Xbox, you are a geek after all!&quot;&lt;p&gt;As a Segue the use of the term &quot;geek&quot; in job descriptions irks me also.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Wording corrected</text></comment>
<story><title>Startup using a custom Portal 2 level to recruit engineers</title><url>http://jobs.wibidata.com/puzzles/portal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouz</author><text>Kind of neat, but strange as a recruitment device: It seems difficult enough to get good people, why would one put such an arbitrary filter as a first barrier? People who don&apos;t play computer games or Portal 2 are probably much less likely to apply that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsl</author><text>Because they made the front page of HackerNews (likely the target audience), and will probably be picked up by a few other techie sites as well.&lt;p&gt;As with all the other &quot;hiring games&quot; that Google and others do, you can also just submit your resume, you don&apos;t have to play.</text></comment>