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Robert G. Ferrell

On a lark (it was big for a lark, but I still had to scrunch up a bit) I applied for an infosec manager position at Facebook. I got to the “upload your resume” segment and there was also a statement indicating the desirability of a code sample. The job is not a software engineering job, but apparently their world consists of nails and code is the hammer. I scratched my head, as I haven’t written any substantial code in at least seven years, and finally included a Perl module I coded in 1999. I don’t even know if it will run.

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