I tried to enter a salary range in an online job application and got this error message:
“What is your target overall salary/annual compensation rate?: Please enter a number using only the digits 0 to 9 with a value between 10000 and 2147483647. Do not include any commas, decimals, or letters.”
I was tempted to enter the maximum value, but I wanted the job.
But I knew the number 2,147,483,647 had to have some significance.
And it does.
- It’s a double Mersenne prime.
- It’s 2 to the 31st power minus 1.
- It’s hexadecimal 7FFFFFFF.
But for Applicant Tracking System (ATS) purposes, it’s “the maximum value for variables declared as integers.”
Don’t tell anyone, but I’d gladly settle for an annual salary of only $2,147,483,646.
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