> "Upload a screenshot of your desktop"

> "Explain the organization of your desktop"

OT: I know I'm a weird and a Linux user (probably redundant, I also know), but am I really the only one who just doesn't have any icons on my desktop? If I want to open something, I just use my desktop environment's search to type the name of it; for the purposes of professional work, 95% of the time it's a browser, text editor, or a terminal, and I don't feel the need to have three lonely icons in the vast sea of my desktop background. If I need a certain file for some application, like a document, I also can just search for it easily using the same method, or just hit the "open" shortcut in whatever app I'm using and find it in the file manager. These are all things that ostensibly are not Linux specific; MacOS has Spotlight (and third-party alternatives like Alfred), and Windows literally a dedicated key with with their logo on it to open the start menu, and if anything I'd expect their users to use Finder/Windows Explorer _more_ often than Linux users. I always thought this was one of those things like "leaving everything in the inbox forever" versus "archiving it once you're done and just keeping the unread things in the inbox" where most people probably do the former but a small but opinionated minority do the latter, but it sounds like whoever wrote those questions hasn't ever met anyone who doesn't use desktop icons.

Because they are trying to discourage people from applying. Given their post history on whoishiring threads, I would confidently say they are just prepping to H1B someone.

Yeah, these guys have been posting the same job ad on HN for nearly four years. They _still_ haven't filled the position? Either they're insanely selective, they have a ton of positions to fill, or no-one is applying. No doubt the stupid application questions are contributing to the latter.

Looking at their linkedin profile, they appear to be Slovenia-based so I'm saying that theory is likely incorrect and they're also unlikely to pay US-value compensation.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/nightwatch-/people/

True, they have only one employee on linkedin. Looks like an imaginary company. I have been seeing the same ad for years.

>prepping to h1b someone

How does that work?

Posting a job req for a while (with no intentions on hiring anyone) and then claiming that they are not able to fulfill it with US workers (pretending none of the people they interviewed had the “special knowledge” needed for the position)

ahahha I love your collection, gotta start one.

Yeah, oof. I was interested, but after seeing all that, hard pass.