Applying for a position by playing a game…now wait, where have I read about something like that before? Ah, right, #daemon .
The tech industry has come up with a lot of wacky ideas for recruiting engineers, but WibiData, a San Francisco start-up that develops big data applications, has come up with a unique gimmick for telegraphing its engineering street cred to job applicants: a custom version of Portal 2, a video game from Valve.
