Tech Company Challenges Job Applicants by Hiding Its Phone Number Inside a Complex Puzzle

Big Commerce, an Australian tech company, is looking for software engineers who can solve complex problems. So, it replaced the phone number in its ads with a complex code and asked potential applicants to solve it. Various media outlets have been reporting that no one called the company because the problem is too hard—but that appears not to be true. A number of people have posted solutions on Big Commerce's Facebook wall, and the company itself tweeted its thanks this weekend to "everyone who 'cracked the code' and called in to the special batphone." (In fact, it linked to a photo showing 1,641 messages in its Skype inbox.) If you're not smart enough to figure it out, don't worry—scroll down to read one Facebook fan's solution to the problem.