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I'm not in management, but have been asked to help out reviewing candidates before. I always google them, but not to look for dirt. I'm interested in how active
by bcl 17y ago
I'm not in management, but have been asked to help out reviewing candidates before. I always google them, but not to look for dirt. I'm interested in how active they are in the open source community. What kinds of projects have they helped out with, etc. I expect any company hiring me to have done the same.
But asking for or expecting access to private websites like facebook? No way. The OP looks to me like someone looking for something to rant about.
- carbon8 17y agoHe's talking about the practice of combing through personal online activity in general and only mentioned the log in issue as an "allegation" that provided an extreme example.
- mblakele 17y agoI'm not interested in a candidate's personal life, but I am interested in development experience. So I run a web search too, but it can be noisy. Lately I've found mailing list activity is more relevant. For example, http://markmail.org/search/?q=from%3A%22Linus+Torvalds%22 http://markmail.org/search/?q=from%3A%22Linus+Torvalds%22
- moe 17y agoThat Torvalds guy is clearly a bad hire as he apparently spends most of his energy on some useless pet project.