Same here, my very first cover letters were hand written, but only because it was "how it's supposed to be". I don't know if tech companies ever cared about it.

Same here, my very first cover letters were hand written, but only because it was "how it's supposed to be". I don't know if tech companies ever cared about it. I used to be stressed because my handwriting looks like 16th century cursive and I didn't want a graphologist to put me in the "pompous ass" category (I'd prefer that to happen during the interview!) Nowadays my cover letter is either the body of the email or a attached PDF (a good way of filtering recruiters who insist on getting Word files so they can edit them.)