Thanks go to our North American correspondent, who alerted us to this genuine, ninja-style recruitment ad from Kiersted Systems in Houston, Texas, which ’has an immediate opening for a Code Warrior’. The software developer is ’looking for battle-hardened code warriors to reinforce the first platoon we recruited earlier this year’. Apparently you might be a code warrior if…

• You are frighteningly awesome at what you do.
• You can perform quick and deadly tactical strikes, as well as feats of epic badassery [no, seriously]. Sometimes both at the same time.
• You always carry duct tape, WD-40 and a blowtorch. You are not afraid to use them.
• There are crumbled bits of dog food in your pocket protector lint [?].
• Even your vacation requests are block structured.
• You know where your towel is. [Keeping up with it so far…?] The ad concludes: ’What’s in it for you?’ One of the deal breakers is:
• We’re a close-knit team of snarky hellions with no HR department to keep us in line.

If anyone can elucidate us as to what a ’snarky hellion’ is, we’d all be very grateful.