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by alkibiades 2667 days ago
i still remember SWIM googling for hours trying to force google foobar to pop up. when it eventually did, most of the answers were on github and it got me an interview.
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Would you mind explaining this like I'm 5? I'm curious but have no idea what SWIM or foobar is, and those aren't exactly googleable terms!
The other poster explained what SWIM is, basically just an acronym to give onself plausible deniability when talking about an action they don’t necessarily want to tie to themselves.

Foobar is google’s hidden coding challenge which can let people get a job interview. see: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geeksforgeeks.org/google-fo...

SWIM = Someone Who Isn’t Me