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John Kappa says:

Awesome...I love the thought behind this.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

George A Papayiannis says:

lol plug and play... now if they said integrate e^-x, then were talking!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Eliot says:

Too bad that isn't a difficult problem.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

DeoxyribonucleicAcid says:

Ripoff of Google recruitment ads.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

reynan.ali says:

google concept
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

flickrsuxdonkeyballs [deleted] says:

nerds!
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

plashal says:

2029562354
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

EmmO))) [deleted] says:

theres no answer. ill leave a message
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

DJ Killbot says:

The recorded message said, "For God's sake you pathetic geek, find your dick and go outside and use it!"
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

PittsburghRic says:

Awesome.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

datura80 [deleted] says:

lame. for lameos.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Weezez says:

brilliant
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

MRBECK says:

That was a pretty brilliant idea!
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

notsocoolxp says:

brilliantly genius
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

yosefsilver.com says:

That's awesome... really really good!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

ilaughcrying says:

Woah. This is so cool. Hahah.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

◄№ЯΣЩФЯςΣ► says:

01.876-8000
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

goldenratio says:

I'm not even good at math, and this is an easy problem.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Clinton K says:

Congrats, you're on the Digg front page.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

ThreeDee912 says:

You've been Dugg!

digg.com/comedy/Job_for_Computer_Engineering_ Funny_Pic
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

solidus636 says:

Wow, its just simple exponents...
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

victor trac says:

The HR person who made that ad apparently never took any sort of math beyond basic algebra.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

evilpig says:

Yay now someones phone number is on the front page of digg WOOT
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

soulbleed62 says:

wow such a difficult problem
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

slipszenko says:

Cool, but not too hard a problem.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

chipsambos says:

i dont get it
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

davidlinyvr says:

"Mckinsey" as in Mckinsey the consulting firm?
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

PatrickSmyth says:

Very Funny
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

ppedersen says:

That's pretty intuitive. Do the math problem then call the number (for those that didn't get it...).
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

vtarpara says:

This is algebra...a 14 year can work for McKinsey? They should've done differential equations or even partial diffEQ.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

pedro_goncalves_teixeira says:

This is a scam. 876 is the area code for Jamaica, where US laws don't apply.
Read more about 876:

urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_809_area_co de_scam.htm
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Not necessarily a scam. In the UK, numbers starting 01 were london, 876 was a london area code. London numbers were of the format 01-xxx-xxxx at one time (they have changed since).

We don't use 01 as international trunk access.

I also doubt that you could fit the entire country-wide telephone system in Jamaica into four digits?

It all depends on where in the world the advert was :-)
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

kubcollector says:

lol
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

vessenes says:

hey vtarpara, no a 14 year old can't work for McKinsey. An Ivy league graduate with a Masters in English that can also still do math could work for McKinsey, though.

Conversely, an Ivy league graduate with a math degree can work for McKinsey if he/she is friendly, well dressed and not a total ass.

As you suggest, this ad isn't for the math majors, or at least (looking at the title of the ad) wasn't written by engineers.. Frankly the hardest math was getting the equation together.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

punkrockallstar says:

Oh boy... They want a team of rhesus monkeys to design their software!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

mringlein says:

The big hang up here is the words "difficult problems" -- it is obvious to us all who made it past the 4th grade that the equation isn't "difficult".

HR reps are not allowed in the marketing department for a reason and this is a classic example of what happens when internal resources don't work together. Proper and more appropriate verbiage would have been something more on the level of "fun challenges". Where you've explained that the problem is for "fun" (perhaps even alluding to a pleasant work environment) and where the term "challenge" is much more subjective than the term "difficult".

Great concept, decent execution.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

corbinbleu says:

And I was expecting it to be a difficult problem. A more appropriate problem would be to list the phone number in binary hex or octal.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

xamox says:

facebbok does the same thing as well. They have story problems and have you e-mail an address that is party of the solution @ facebook.com
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

8thcross says:

This is basic algebra...any idiot can do this...you don't need engineers to do this :)
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Gabbing Gaby [deleted] says:

i tried it and I think I did it wrong lol
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

Fort Cloudy says:

That is terribly rad!
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

SectionJinx says:

Its like that billboard google made, good idea
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

MUSULMAN says:

good
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

lovemedic says:

you must be really into solving problems to apply for this one!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

jas_atwal says:

so can we apply at that number?? which company is that? ;)
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Biggersis says:

ROFLMAO...so you work with computer engineers too hunh? If I could think up cool photo's like this I might be on my own Island now instead of working two jobs trying to pay back my damn student loan programs...in the computer engineering field no less!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

alanr723 says:

lol...or you could just go to www.computerjobs.com/userlogin.aspx?_panel=1& mkt=t6
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

ıllı N ıllı says:

LOOL ..
Fav
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

VadimBravo says:

ha ha cool stuff!

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Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

fallenidol says:

01.876.80000 ?
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

orgthingy says:

what the,,,? i can solve this but, why can't they just *simply* write the number as 1 digit number (e.g. 2) instead of an equation xD ?
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

angrykeyboarder says:

I made it through 12th grade (graduated 1979) and all of this is gibberish to me.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

kellieebrooke says:

1-876-8000
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

il progetto says:

cool!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

nicklagun says:

not very dificult but very original!!

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Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

◄Ginny► ♫ girls just wanna have fun ♫ says:

Great Idea!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

elvybeauti says:

incredible.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

rexmo says:

Are they looking for grade schoolers? I was answering those types of questions in 5th grade.

htttp://rexmo.net
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

rexmo says:

Are they looking for grade schoolers? I was answering those types of questions in 5th grade.

rexmo.net
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

chelseaadurr says:

Lmfao, that's too funny
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

turn_itout says:

Brilliant.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

a.swisher says:

even though everyone keeps saying how easy the problem is...i don't think that's really the point....

I thought it was pretty creative.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

bangkokbeat says:

cool!! i want to say the same thing when we're recruiting new team member. most of young applicants seem to look for easy job but well-paid.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Claudiu Balaceanu Photography says:

Good concept, a bit geeky !

Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Pipe  says:

Brillante e inteligente!!!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

princessjanke says:

funny idea!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Gamer Grrlz says:

I love joke photos :) Nicely done.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Chaval Brasil says:

Why calc? Just google the answer! ;-)

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Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

flugwolf says:

McKinsey. Pffft. Have they ever done anything other than asking holes into the employee's brains and then making informed looking slides out of the knowledge they do not have themselves? Lame.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

que habra sido de Ignatius? says:

hey, that's not a complicated equation .(
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

pk69 says:

love the idea
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

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