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by curbside 3212 days ago
Take a stab at our little challenge and ensure your CV gets reviewed by our team: curl https://challenge.curbside.com Curbside is enabling a new way to shop, built for the era of instant mobile commerce. The Curbside app makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores. Curbside searches realtime local inventory across retailers and uses location-based technologies to alert stores when a customer is arriving for a pickup. Curbside helps consumers quickly get what they need and helps retailers better serve their increasingly mobile centric customers. The Curbside Merchant Console enables alerts to staff as customers arrive to pick up orders and also manages online order workflow.

Curbside’s investors include Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Gil Elbaz & David Waxman’s TenOneTen and Chicago Ventures.

Tech Stack: Clojure, Python, Javascript, iOS, Android, Elasticsearch

Problem space: mobile commerce, big data, search, machine learning, reverse engineering, distributed systems, location services, user experience.

https://curbside.com/jobs • Palo Alto, Ca. • Relocation Available • Sorry at this time we cannot sponsor NEW H-1B’s, but we can transfer existing visa’s and sponsor new E3’s, TN’s, and O-1’s.

1 comments

I solved this puzzle and it turned out to be complete waste of my time. The email provided at the end does not even work. Please stop pasting this outdated crap, and stop wasting people's time.
Glad to know it wasn't just me; the same thing happened to me in 2015 (over two years ago)!

A follow-up email a few weeks later (directly to a Curbside employee who had posted the job req here) also went unanswered.

I didn't know whether this was due to particularly poor hiring etiquette or a disastrous mailing system misconfiguration, but I eventually concluded I wouldn't want to join a workplace suffering either one.

I just verified that the challenge is working as expected and that the email address is valid and working.

And I can confirm to you that everything works properly.

So maybe you didn't solved the challenge correctly.

Anyway, if you think something is wrong, I invite you to contact me on my personal email (in my profile)