Best practice: Booking.com is finding talent via their source code

Be where your customers are.How to find front end developers for your website or startup?Hiring message in the source code of your website.

• Potential hires
• Some PR

Booking.com is certainly not the first to do this and most definitely not the last. In an effort to attract designers and developers, Booking.com “hid” some code in their HTML code. When you look at the source code of any page on Booking.com, you will find below text and a reference to their career site. A smart and simple way to recruit new talent. Even if only one person gets attracted this way, it was worth the effort.<!–
You know you could be getting paid to poke around in our code?
We’re hiring designers and developers to work in Amsterdam:
https://careers.booking.com/
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