Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?

Looks like that number is in base-36 instead of base-10 (decimal). Using <a href="http://www.unitconversion.org/numbers/base-10-to-base-36-conversion.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unitconversion.org&#x2F;numbers&#x2F;base-10-to-base-36-con...</a> yields number 80113871 as the last 8 digits of the phone number.

Trivial puzzle, but I have no desire to ever work for BigCommerce.<p><pre><code> require &#x27;sinatra&#x27; require &#x27;twilio-ruby&#x27; ACCOUNT_SID = &quot;Your SID&quot; AUTH_TOKEN = &quot;Your Token&quot; BIG_COMMERCE_NUMBER = &quot;+612#{1bp49b&quot;.to_i(36)}&quot; APP_URL = &quot;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;path.to.this.app.com&quot; YOUR_NUMBER = &quot;+61211111111&quot; get &#x27;&#x2F;&#x27; do twilio = Twilio::REST::Client.new(ACCOUNT_SID, AUTH_TOKEN) twilio.account.calls.create( from: YOUR_NUMBER, to: BIG_COMMERCE_NUMBER url: APP_URL + &quot;&#x2F;give-me-a-job&quot; ) end get &#x27;&#x2F;give-me-a-job&quot; do r.Dial callerId: YOUR_NUMBER do |d| d.Number(CGI.escape(YOUR_NUMBER)) end end</code></pre>

Kinda silly given they tell you the base...it&#x27;d be cooler if they didn&#x27;t give you the base and you had to play with it until you had something that fit the phone numbers in the area that the company is in<p>Also, where&#x27;s the startups in Brisbane anyway :-&#x2F;

Or no one has cared to try... Being able to identify a base-36 number isn&#x27;t a good measure at all of being a good engineer, obviously. Google used to do something similar to this and then stopped once they figured that out.

Did anyone actually call up and checked if that is the solution? The base 36 thing was also the first thing that came to my mind, and after evaluating the number, I saw that the start is 8..., quickly checked the australian number codes and saw that sydney is indeed +61 02 8..., so for me there&#x27;s a chance that&#x27;s the solution. However, since it seemed kind of trivial to me, I thought maybe it&#x27;s a prank of some sort...

That ad needs to be on a round manhole cover

Can anyone explain how the conversion works? I don&#x27;t get how it works even after looking at the conversion table at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_36" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Base_36</a>

Got bored, solved it in 3 seconds, called the number and left my name.<p>Not really a complex puzzle by any means...

Out of Z types of people in the World, Y don&#x27;t know anything about Base-36.

Do it by hand and I&#x27;m impressed :)