Flight Control Operator

flight_control_operator.md

How to apply

Make a POST request to https://windbornesystems.com/career_applications.json with the following body:

{
  "career_application": {
    "name": "Your name",
    "email": "Your email",
    "role": "Flight Control Operator",
    "notes": "Any note you want to add!",
    "submission_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your coding challenge -- see below"
    "portfolio_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to a project of your choice -- see below",
    "resume_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your resume",
  }
}

Make sure this gives a status code of 200! Any other status means it wasn't accepted; check the response body for more.

Tell us about you

Answer the following questions and post a publicly accessible URL to your answers in the submission_url field

1. What's your favorite video game and why?
2. What gets your blood pumping?
3. What are you a snob about? In other words, what are you highly opinionated about or what is something where you think your taste is better than other peoples’?
4. Name a way you changed your environment to make it work for you. This can be a favorite hotkey, any unconventional systems you hooked up or a way you were opinionated about your workflow. Think outside the box!
5. This is a screenshot of a balloon's altitude profile. Tell me everything you can about the balloon's life. What are you certain about, and what are you uncertain about?

Showing off

• Take a photo of your desk. What’s the most important thing on it? Also, draw a smiling balloon on a piece of paper and include it in the picture. Post a publicly accessible URL to your photo portfolio_url field

If you have questions, submit them via a POST request (just include a way for us to contact you!). We won't respond to comments on this gist.

More about the role(s)

Hopefully you came across this gist from our careers page, but if not, here's the summary!

• WindBorne Systems designs, builds, and launches a new kind of smart weather balloon, then plugs this unique data into our own AI-based weather models. Our mission is to build a planetary nervous system. In the process, we can both save a huge amount of carbon emissions and help humanity adapt to extreme weather.

• This is for you if you like deranged software systems and pushing the limits of what's possible. This is not for you if you want a chill job selling ads.

• If(& ONLY IF) you do the entirety of this challenge, I promise you'll hear back from us