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Ex-Google Tech Lead Brags About How He Used to Trash Women's Résumés

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Re: Ex-Google Tech Lead Brags About How He Used to Trash Women's Résumés

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Post by gryn »

yup it's the person I've had in my mind before clicking.

he has one of the most obnoxious YouTube video channels. I honestly don't know if he's a troll or an individual with serious mental problems (or both ?)

for those who don't know him, his personality or maybe just his online persona revolves around being an ex-Facebook, ex-google, ex-husband, ex god-empror, ex-insert whatever you feel like.

that got fired from all of them not because of his incompetence and toxicity but because he was too much of genius that others feared him.

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Post by eschaton »

Hope this asshole never needs to work again. He’s just cost all of his prior employers many, many thousands of dollars in legal review of every hiring committee he’s ever been a part of, and potentially millions of dollars in discrimination settlements, so he’s going to be radioactive to any company but those explicitly on the ideological far right.

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Post by jstream67 »

haha I saw 'Tech Lead' and was wondering if it is the 'TechLead' guy from youtube -- yup sure is [https://www.youtube.com/c/TechLead/videos].

I used to watch his videos occasionally because I liked his dry humor and quirky takes. However his humor eventually got so dry that I am unable to tell what is a joke and what is real anymore. Looking back I think it is possible that everything on his youtube is made up.

Lately he seems to have optimized heavily towards generating youtube clicks. This seems to be a pretty obvious case of him deliberately generating controversy to drive traffic.

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Post by belter »

Do people have no more sense of humour? Is everybody here changing the world and providing a future to humanity a javascript framework at a time?

This the Tech Lead! The one and only! The man has a sense of humour driest than the bottom of Death Valley.

"Why I'm so good at coding.": https://youtu.be/xqgH9j3x2OE

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Post by moomin »

eschaton wrote: post #6
HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #4

It’s incredible to me that people can’t see that this is obvious bait. He is just saying this to get attention, and it’s clearly working.

How do you know this isn’t his opinion?

You see, that’s the thing with the far-right grift. It’s always like dealing with Schrödinger’s cat but for beliefs. But the answer to “Are they a deeply unpleasant person or are they just in it for the attention/money?” is always both. This isn’t new. Goebbels was quite open about the fact a lot of what he did was fundamentally in bad faith.

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Post by 4ggr0 »

belter wrote: post #8

Do people have no more sense of humour? Is everybody here changing the world and providing a future to humanity a javascript framework at a time? This the Tech Lead! The one and only! The man has a sense of humour driest than the bottom of Death Valley. "Why I'm so good at coding.": https://youtu.be/xqgH9j3x2OE

He also scammed people with his own cryptocurrency, dragging critics through the mud and constantly lying about the situation.
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