Hiring at Goodreads: New Opening for Hyperintelligent Pandimensional Mice
Posted by Jessica on April 01, 2012Goodreads is hiring for the following positions. Click to read more and apply on our jobs page:
Today, we'd like to spotlight our newest open position:
Hyperintelligent Pandimensional Mice
Goodreads, a US Top 150 site and the 10th largest social networking site in the galaxy, is seeking Hyperintelligent Pandimensional Mice to take charge of the Goodreads Recommendation Engine, the third greatest supercomputer in the Universe of Space and Time designed to answer the Ultimate Question of What People Like to Read Next. Qualified mice should be comfortable analyzing the mind-boggling 20 billion data points of reader likes and dislikes recorded in the Goodreads catalog to calculate the staggering improbability of reader interest in any given book.
Note: We will also consider qualified dolphins for this position.
Required Skills:
- Proficient with SEP fields, bistromath, and complex functions involving telephone numbers.
- Knowledge of the Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler operating system.
- Ability to predict personality problems to ten decimal places.
- Quick learner, must be able to pick up frighteningly elegant new technologies quickly.
- Experience with protrusion into other reading dimensions a plus.
- Must carry own towel.
We Prefer Applicants Who:
- Are not prone to panicking.
- Come equipped with own Babel fish.
- If cybernetic, come loaded with pleasant GPP.
- Know better than to muck about in hyperspace.
About Goodreads:
- Our environment is highly supportive, friendly, and mostly harmless.
- We are the galaxy's largest site for readers, froods, and book recommendations.
- Our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Along the way, we plan to improve the process of reading and learning throughout the galaxy.
- Great location: Our office in downtown San Francisco, catty-corner from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, is always stocked with cheese and an infinite supply of ballpoint pens.
- Our office culture includes a Brockian Ultra Cricket league, frequent trips to Disaster Area concerts, and regular Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster happy hours.
Please submit your résumé. You can also submit the following additional information now, or if you would prefer, later in our interview process: A code sample and a paragraph or two about why you want to work for Goodreads. For a limited time, we are offering state-of-the-art digital watches as a signing bonus. Don't wait, come sass us today!
Update: As of April 2, 2012, the position has been filled. Thank you.
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Comments (showing 1-50 of 178) (178 new)
overwhelming....... *brain freeze*
Lol, waaaay too over the top imho. Google's was much nicer, even though it was really obvious, the simplicity of it made it that much more awesome.
Dear Jessica,You unaccountably failed to reply last time I sent you a job application. I shall pretend it was an administrative error and give you a second chance.
Jessica, all I can say is that I would be perfect for this position. I am the only living person to have published a collection of Goodreads reviews (all the others have been terminated with extreme prejudice by my teams of highly-trained ninja assassins). I have also published two books on software engineering. Last, but definitely not least, I am a hyperintelligent pandimensional mouse.
I expect you to hire me on the spot, but, should you need to placate your superiors by going through the motions of doing a background check, I am prepared to forward you my resume.
I look forward to spending lazy afternoons at the Goodreads offices, pretending to work while I goof off and post reviews. I hope the rumors are true that claim employees are entitled to extra free votes.
Your future colleague,
Manny
"Required Skills: Must carry own towel."Great. It's always the little details that disqualify me. >_>
Jane wrote: "Love April Fools - nice one GR :-)"Ha ha. May be it is an April Fool thing. If not, a funny coincidence.
Dhriti wrote: "i actually took it seriously at first...happy april fools day to one and all.."Me too. I actually just thought they had a really cool refreshing approach to hiring. Shame, really.
yeah...it would be nice to tell my best friend that goodreads hired me.she would turn green with envy.
ROFL, you almost got me. BTW just reading Don't panic by Neil Gaiman so this joke really made my day. :D
haha.. I thought I'm stupid for not knowing that there's such OS called Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler.
Nice one.. Happy Trolling Day~!
Claudia wrote: "now submitting resume..."So you're applying too, Claudia? Are you also a mouse? I don't want to be rude, but your avatar makes you look rather like a cat...
I applied! With a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday :)
Heheheheh I just love April 1... Would Supraintelligent ultraomniscient gerbils also come into consideration? Especially ones who know how to navigate around cyber black holes when engaging the grey ravages of cyberspace?
Hayes wrote: "In Italian it's called a pesce d'aprile, an April fish. Well done!"
Ha, good to know. In french we say "poisson d'avril," so translated it's something like April's Fish too!
No Babel fish, but I have the Costco size box of XTRA CHEDDAR GOLDFISH in the pantry. Will that do??

































