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I'm not sure why you circle back to peer pressure when we agree it isn't an issue. Are you reading past the comments? >it's completely absurd to imagine we'd e

I'm not sure why you circle back to peer pressure when we agree it isn't an issue. Are you reading past the comments? >it's completely absurd to imagine we'd ever turn away a good candidate because their name didn't hit on a social media search, Understand for a moment many of these people are not developers with well-established CVs. These are normal people working the bottom of the ladder where there are plenty of replacements, and the answer to being irreplaceable is effectively 'start becoming a prodigy, establish a network early or be lucky'. Often too late for them. Even that advice alone is insane for the yet-to-be-born given a virtually global mental health crisis. Leaving things up to executives behaving in a sane manner has given us multiple global problems to deal with. I wouldn't count on their sanity to prevent another.

root_axis 4y ago
> I'm not sure why you circle back to peer pressure when we agree it isn't an issue. You're the one bringing it up. You've mentioned peer pressure in all of your replies. > Understand for a moment many of these people are not developers with well-established CVs It doesn't matter the industry or the CV, the idea that the absence of a social media account factors into hiring decisions in any real way doesn't make sense.
- jasonm23 4y ago
  I think there was a remote possibility of it being an issue 6 or 7 years ago. Since then the problems with Social Media. People preferring not to participate, has become such a trend that it is extremely unlikely to be a hiring issue these days. However, in *some* corners of corporate HR, it's certainly been part of their scoring, at the peak of Facebook's popularity.