This feels to me like when you're a teenager and your parents try to be cool around your friends but it only makes you more embarrassed and want nothing to do with them.
When I was a recruiter learning to code, I posted a personal's ad written in SQL on Craigslist. Ended up going out on a date with a DBA :) She was a falconer, and we took her hawk out to hunt crows.
jokes on the coder, that's actually written in recscript, a little known scripting language with a sort of C like syntax targeting Microsoft's old ActiveScripting framework.<p>The Document object is one of the 7 special objects available in the language (others: Resource [every other special object is an instance of Resource], Sheet, Calendar, Sound, Presentation, Database, Browser). Since there isn't any use of the Create Document statement before usage I'm guessing this is after version 2.14 of the language in which Create was dropped as unnecessary (a bit of syntactical sugar).<p>Anyway Document instantiates a Microsoft Word object and saves it to recscript Documents folder automatically, all text inside of it is indexed, so you can also do stuff like Resources.find("you’fe killing me! Contact me because I desire this");<p>By the way the recscript code editor which provided an advanced code execution environment to develop in (something like JsFiddle only years prior) also supported open and close parenthesis.<p>IIRC the open and close parenthesis had special semantic meaning in the language.
Spelling mistake on line 43 of the revised code: 'and' should be 'an'. That's just sloppy.<p>I am working with a french developer right now (English second language) who is really good, but peppers his code with minor grammatical or spelling errors. He is slowly driving me insane and doesn't know it :D
I think the nested while loops are trying to capture the logic that they won't leave you alone without trying at least twice.<p>Sadly the do-while loop structure is largely lost on modern developers.
Tried fixing it so it would run, and the hardest bit was recognizing that the double-quotes weren't actually double-quotes, but rather these two characters: “ ”
More accurate title would be "I code reviewed it"... I don't see a working fixed script anywhere.<p>Edit: I stand corrected. For some reason I thought that was the only file in the repo. It's been a long week but I have no excuse.
Sheesh. If you've got it, don't be afraid to show it. But do so cleanly. Not with something like this<p>And if you don't have it, than don't bother trying: you're trying to hire those who do: doing this doesn't make you look smart.<p>Also, use \<newline> to keep your code at 80 columns. I actually don't care if it's exactly 80, but excessively long lines are a pain to read.
You would think someone that works at LinkedIn, a company that likely employees hundreds (thousand(s)?), of engineers would have this proof read before sending it off to potential applicants. This is a real turn off.