14 DAY TRIAL // The last massive wave of hires at Reddit hasn't settled yet, but the site isn't slowing down. After doubling its system admin team, and doubling its sales team it is now looking to double its engineering team as well. And this time around the numbers are even bigger, when all is said and done, Reddit will have a total of six software engineers working full time.
"Earlier this week we announced four new hires, and today we'd like to get started on the next batch: We're hiring three more engineers! Ideally, we'd like to get a frontend programmer, a backend programmer, and someone in between," Reddit announced.
Companies hire people all the time, well except Reddit, it's kind of a big deal for them, but what makes this particular 'round' interesting is the way it's going through the job application process.
Rather than having to go through countless TL;DR resumes and cover letters, which don't really say much about a programmer's skill level anyway, Reddit is asking people to create something before they get the privilege of sending a CV to the company.
For the frontend part, the challenge is simple, in a way. All you have to do is create a working Reddit clone using standard HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
It doesn't have to be anything fancy, it only has to work in a browser of your choice, but it probably has to have something to showcase your skills.
The backend challenge is a little more specific but not overly technical. Basically, Reddit is looking for a faster way of searching through their log files.
There's nothing inherently hard about that, except Reddit's log files for a day are in the 70 GB - 72 GB, meaning that any query will take quite some time to return a result. If you think you can take a crack at it, just send a private message to #redditjobs and provide details about your creation.