My whole identity can get revealed. It gives my stackoverflow and GitHub profile.

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I found myself on top(GitHub profile 🙂)

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My social media profiles come at top results

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- A 26-year-old UK man, Josh Williams, was fired from his customer service job for spending work hours Googling trivial topics.
- He admitted to wasting over 50 hours on such searches, leading to his dismissal in July.
- Josh's decision to share his frustrations on TikTok backfired when potential employers recognized him from the viral video.
- Despite earning around £450 (Rs 50,000) from his TikToks, Josh faced intense criticism for his lack of professionalism.
- He has since found a new job in the food industry, but admits it's not a role he enjoys.

Source: [Moneycontrol](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/man-fired-for-googling-trivial-stuff-on-office-computer-his-searches-included-12834051.html)

Man Loses Job for Googling Trivial Topics at Work

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It happened about 4yrs ago when I was looking for a job change for the first time. I hadn't practiced DSA in a long time and I was giving interviews without enough preparation.

So during a virtual interview the interviewer gave me a DSA question which I had a look at a couple of days ago but still didn't know how to solve properly. 

I thought it would be easier if I can just search through my browser history to find that solution I saw. 

I might have searched my history for about 15-20 secs and suddenly realised that I was fking sharing my screen on call 🤦

{Trust me! I'm smart, this was a brain fart moment}

I immediately closed the history tab and pretended like this never happened, and tried to solve the question on my own.

The fact that both of us didn't say anything makes it even more embarrassing for me. There was an eerie silence which makes me think he saw what I was trying to do.

During the whole call I was super embarrassed, but I gave my best and was able to solve half of the cases, but didn't get selected for the next round, obviously. 

till today I wonder whether he saw that I was trying to cheat or not ? and what he thinks of me?

I'm aware/realise that this is what happens when you try to cheat, so either don't cheat or be smart about it 🙂

do you have anything similar to share?

Embarrassing Cheating Story 🤫

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Salary is not the only thing!!!

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My father worked as a peon when I was a kid. I barely had any friends and could not afford any toys. He used to work really long hours everyday. He was sleeping when I went to school and I was sleeping when he got back from work. So we never really talked. I was not good at studies during school, later I got to know that I had severe ADHD. My teachers used to say that I am good for nothing and very talkative all my life which gave me a lot of anxiety.

I got into a CSE at a Tier 2 college. This was with the help of my cousin sister who used to tutor me after school and taught me how to think from fundamentals. 

In college my seniors used to do a lot of ragging and make us not have food in the hostel mess. I lost a lot of weight and ended up with jaundice. This was the reason why I had a very bad CGPA in first year, <6. Slowly over the years I was able to bring it over 7.

I got into a service based company after college with a CTC of 3.75 LPA. I did not have any offers and I did not have anyone for guidance in my life. That is when I started to pick up some freelancing gigs and talked to people from other countries and cultures which educated me about top tech companies. So I started preparing for that.

I was rejected a total of 4 times by Amazon which completely broke me from the inside. Meanwhile my father got stomach cancer and he passed away. To this day my deepest regret is that my father did not see me finally achieving success in my life and till his last moments I am sure he thought of me as a failure son.

As I moved through my career I made a goal of reaching Google. I prepared very hard for an entire year with a lot of studying and preparation. Finally I got into Google. My family became very happy for me as I was the first person in my entire extended family to get such a package. After a lifetime of struggle I was finally content with where I am.

My only wish is that my father was here and his struggle for providing me with the best was not wasted.

Reached Google as a lifelong failure student 👨🏻‍💻

I will go first 

1. Vacation searches (where to go …)
2. Personal finance, investments, books 
3. Movies to watch, reviews 
4. Product/ service searches 
5. Cars, new tech, 
6. Jobs and opportunities 
7. Sports news/ updates, Football, Tennis and Cricket 
8. Fitness, gym, workout, running and cycling tips

Summarize your last 10 years of browsing history as a list.

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Waze Map got acquired by Google for $1.3 Bn in 2013. 10 years later, Google's decided to cease Waze’s ad platform in favour of Google Ads technology. 

Waze advertising was more than just ads; it’s about creating connections. Users enjoy relevant, location-centric promotions, while businesses connect with potential customers right when they’re most likely to visit. It’s a model that turned every drive into an opportunity – both for businesses to grow and for users to discover.

Wrote about it here:

https://talesofss.com/google-waze-advertising-changes/

Waze advertising killed by Google

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Google slowly laying off employees in one country after another is the most nerve wracking move. 
Couple days back they cut employees in Australia and similarly they keep laying off in a new country each week. Must be so enervating for employees. 

IMO meta and Amazon handled layoffs much better

Google slowly laying off

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Searching for my lobster since fckin 5yrs and no results!

-Tried through contacts, turned down
- Shaadi/Jeevansathi : No one is serious and the more options I get the more end up confused. Likewise for the other side.

Although in online I get plethora of options,I end up wasting time and money.

95% of the matches are doing window shopping.

This is way way harder then getting into FAANG.

Some stats of me:

Height:6'2
Age:33
Diet: Vegetarian/Teetotaler

Btw feel free to reach out to me here also  😂

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Fun seeing oneself legit grow on this platform

Found my old posts on Discover More and fell in love with how cute I wrote!

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how do I know that ?

I have put my blog link in resume, this is google analytics data of my blog.

Nobody else reads my blog, I have past data to prove that.

Out of 209, about 50 HR's reached out to me for interviews

200+ people opened my resume in last one month

Looking at it as a replacement for Google because Google sucks ass now and chatgpt doesn't vibe with me like it does with others

Anyone uses Kagi.com as their search engine? Saw it on hackernews seems interesting.

Hi Folks, so one my friend tells me that if you keep changing jobs / companies as frequently as within a year or so it creates bad impact of us and the chances of getting hired by other companies are less.

Does this really effect on our resume or career? Does Hiring Managers check this as point before selecting any candidates ? Really wanna know as if we don’t switch we can’t survive in this companies for the salary they pay us.

Does switching companies frequently a bad thing ?

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With the encouraging developments, I wanted to crowdsource the best use cases so that I can utilize it even better

For me: 
1) Personal: Using it for movies. My prompt is typically: What genre film I want, what are films in that genre I like, they should be produced after year 2005, and they should have a rotten tomatoes audience score above 85%. It works beautifully well. Some of the best movies I'd never discovered.

2) Work: Building draft replies and being able to save them to Text Blaze. Stuff like "Not interested" or "Set up meeting" (which automatically includes my Calendly link etc.). Makes going past inbox very smooth. 

Curious to hear from the rest of you :)

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