Programmer Humor

With misinformation about and how shit Google search is lately, it's definitely a skill worth learning.

“I’ve got 10 years of googling experience”.

“Sorry, we only accept candidates with 12 years of googling experience”.

Not only is "Googling" one of my most important job skills, now that I'm doing professional services, my entire job basically consist of "Learn product ${FOO} faster than the customer's employees can." Which of course primarily consists of knowing what to search for, how to find it, and how to interpret and use what I find.

To be fair you could call this "search optimisation" and the people on Linkedin would eat this up

A few years ago... Okay over a decade ago 🤕 Google offered a free course on "googling" with a certificate for completion. You're damn straight I put that on my resume. Of course they've disabled half the tricks they taught us but now.

"Prompt Engineering": AKA explaining to Chat GPT why it's wrong a dozen times before it spits out a useable (but still not completely correct) answer.

I have multiple people in my IT department who henpeck when they type. If you don't want him, please send the CV my way.

Ask them if they know what udm=14 means.

When I interviewed junior devs for my team, I had zero theoretical questions, and only two coding questions which were basically code that had to be debugged, and once it was running, for them to implement some minor things that I asked them to implement. I said I don't mind if they googled, I only wanted them to share their screens while they worked, so that I can see how they worked and how they googled/adapted the answers to their code. I interviewed over a dozen people ranging from freshers to 4 yoe, and you should see how terrible they were at googling. Out of all them, only one fresher came close to being good in the interview. Even '4 yoe' devs who 'spearheaded' various projects sucked at basic python and googling.

Knowing when to cut your losses swallow your pride and ask for help is legitimately an incredibly important dev skill. I've met otherwise decent developers that could disappear in a hole for a month on a simple problem that anyone else on the team could help them work through in a few hours because they didn't want to look dumb.

Actually finding something on Google often requires some knowledge and the application of the right strategies and tricks.

Holy shit, this guy only Google searches with {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s

Definitely a senior.

Lucky guy. Tolerance for calling a spade a spade is a big green flag.

adding googling to my cv rn

Clearly fake. Nobody's hiring nowadays.

Isn't this a repost? I remember seeing this a while ago.

...the rest of that resume must be absolutely insane. Or he's applying to be a businessman.

I'm out here with a Master's degree and 3 years of work experience and I'm not even getting a first call. Shit's tough out here.