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I wonder what the employer's response would be to "I don't have a Facebook page?" Would I be required to get one in order to give them the password? Also, it s

by dabent 15y ago

I wonder what the employer's response would be to "I don't have a Facebook page?" Would I be required to get one in order to give them the password? Also, it seems they would be selecting for people who were willing to trade passwords for money in the interview. The decision to trade sensitive data has already been made, it's now just a matter of negotiating price.

jakejake 15y ago
They're response would probably depend on whether they already know you have a Facebook account. But assuming you got away with it - if it's the type of company that is asking for Facebook passwords, then it's type the company that's likely to fire you later when they find out that you lied during the interview. I haven't had to experience this yet, but I would like to think I'd just decline and say they are free to look at whatever public information is available on my Facebook page.
- dabent 15y ago
  I wouldn't lie about it, in fact I can't see ever consenting to such a thing (giving out a password to any service to someone it doesn't belong to). But there are actually people out there that don't have a FB account. I was wondering how an employer would deal with that. Other people would probably ghost their FB, give up the password or friend an overseer, but never use the account again.
  - jakejake 15y ago
    If you don't use FB then I suppose the company would be satisfied since they don't need to worry about what you post. The whole thing is ridiculous. If they wanted to get dirt on most of us they'd probably find more here in our hackernews accounts. If they're going to do that we might as well give them our email password too so they can read all of our private correspondences. I could barely believe it when I read that this was happening and people were putting up with it. I can't wait for some large company to get sued and shamed over this.

by dabent 15y ago

jakejake 15y ago

They're response would probably depend on whether they already know you have a Facebook account. But assuming you got away with it - if it's the type of company that is asking for Facebook passwords, then it's type the company that's likely to fire you later when they find out that you lied during the interview. I haven't had to experience this yet, but I would like to think I'd just decline and say they are free to look at whatever public information is available on my Facebook page.

dabent 15y ago
I wouldn't lie about it, in fact I can't see ever consenting to such a thing (giving out a password to any service to someone it doesn't belong to). But there are actually people out there that don't have a FB account. I was wondering how an employer would deal with that. Other people would probably ghost their FB, give up the password or friend an overseer, but never use the account again.
- jakejake 15y ago
  If you don't use FB then I suppose the company would be satisfied since they don't need to worry about what you post. The whole thing is ridiculous. If they wanted to get dirt on most of us they'd probably find more here in our hackernews accounts. If they're going to do that we might as well give them our email password too so they can read all of our private correspondences. I could barely believe it when I read that this was happening and people were putting up with it. I can't wait for some large company to get sued and shamed over this.