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Facebook and Twitter Password Request for Job Interviews
Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:26 pm
Article "Resume, references, password: Some employers ask job seekers to share their Facebook logins"
This is infuriating to me. Has anyone experienced this firsthand?
If an interviewer asked me for my facebook password, I would try to think of the most diplomatic way to tell them to go f*ck themselves -- and I don't even have a Facebook or Twitter account.
I also intervew campus and experienced hires and never go seeking out their info on facebook etc. Too many solid coworkers over the years "bring it" at the office but also party hard in their time off. Good for them. The day I have to ask somebody for their passwords is the day I stop interviewing.
Seriously, has anyone been a part of this from either direction? Geez.
What's next? "Please turn around and pull down your pants, m'am. We have a mandatory screening for tramp stamps."
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When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.
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Companies that don’t ask for passwords have taken other steps — such as asking applicants to friend human resource managers or to log in to a company computer during an interview.
This is infuriating to me. Has anyone experienced this firsthand?
If an interviewer asked me for my facebook password, I would try to think of the most diplomatic way to tell them to go f*ck themselves -- and I don't even have a Facebook or Twitter account.
I also intervew campus and experienced hires and never go seeking out their info on facebook etc. Too many solid coworkers over the years "bring it" at the office but also party hard in their time off. Good for them. The day I have to ask somebody for their passwords is the day I stop interviewing.
Seriously, has anyone been a part of this from either direction? Geez.
What's next? "Please turn around and pull down your pants, m'am. We have a mandatory screening for tramp stamps."
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Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:29 pm to Bayou Tiger
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I also intervew campus and experienced hires and never go seeking out their info on facebook etc.
That is probably a mistake on your part to be honest. However, if someone asked for my facebook/twitter password I would tell them no. I wouldn't give it out for the same reason I don't give them my cell phone to read text or my email password to read my email. There are private conversations on there.
They can friend the shite out of me. Nothing to see there.
Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:37 pm to rmc
If your privacy parameters are set correctly, they need never know you have a facebook account.
Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:48 pm to Jim Rockford
I know the job market is shitty, but I would flip burgers before I worked for someone who asks for a FB PW.
Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:48 pm to rmc
quote:I'm a pretty detailed interviewer and historically have had a pretty good gauge of whether somebody can get the job done. I don't care what they do in their time off.
That is probably a mistake on your part to be honest.
Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:50 pm to Bayou Tiger
I understand that, but if I'm responsible for someone getting hired I'm taking all available info I can get. I would just hate to hire someone who was prone to this or that, something happen and it could have easily been found on facebook. It's my understanding that scoping out a facebook page is almost as standard as asking for an address and phone number.
Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:56 pm to rmc
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I understand that, but if I'm responsible for someone getting hired I'm taking all available info I can get. I would just hate to hire someone who was prone to this or that, something happen and it could have easily been found on facebook. It's my understanding that scoping out a facebook page is almost as standard as asking for an address and phone number.
If somebody puts their life online for the public to see, so be it. Otherwise, it should be none of the potential employer's business. HR departments started doing this BS because they could get away with it. If every job applicant told them GFY they'd quit.
Posted on 3/22/12 at 9:58 pm to Jim Rockford
I'm talking about just viewing someones public FB page. I don't agree with asking for or giving FB passwords.
Posted on 3/22/12 at 10:01 pm to rmc
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I'm talking about just viewing someones public FB page. I don't agree with asking for or giving FB passwords.
I agree, whatever's publicly available is fair game. Easy enough to make private what you want private.
Posted on 3/22/12 at 10:26 pm to Jim Rockford
I don't even know my fb password
Posted on 3/22/12 at 10:33 pm to NukemVol
quote:
I know the job market is shitty, but I would flip burgers before I worked for someone who asks for a FB PW.
This.
I wish someone would ask me this shite in an interview.
I don't even have a FB account, but I wouldn't tell them that. I would just unload on his/her arse and see myself out.
This post was edited on 3/22/12 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 3/22/12 at 10:44 pm to Alabama Slim
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I don't even know my fb password
Posted on 3/22/12 at 10:53 pm to kfizzle85
Also, I don't see what you could gather from somebody's facebook page. Maybe if they posted illiterate English on their wall, I would be hesitant.
If it's just drinking pictures. Who gives a damn. The most intelligent, hard working kids I knew in college were stupid binge drinkers. I'm pretty sure in college that's all I got out of FB. Pictures that people posted of me because only women carry cameras. And probably 75% of them I had a lazy eye.
If it's just drinking pictures. Who gives a damn. The most intelligent, hard working kids I knew in college were stupid binge drinkers. I'm pretty sure in college that's all I got out of FB. Pictures that people posted of me because only women carry cameras. And probably 75% of them I had a lazy eye.
This post was edited on 3/22/12 at 11:07 pm
Posted on 3/22/12 at 11:20 pm to NukemVol
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If it's just drinking pictures. Who gives a damn. The most intelligent, hard working kids I knew in college were stupid binge drinkers. I'm pretty sure in college that's all I got out of FB. Pictures that people posted of me because only women carry cameras. And probably 75% of them I had a lazy eye.
Because a lot of people have a natural tendency to want to get all up in your business. If given a chance, they will. It's no more complicated than that.
Posted on 3/23/12 at 8:44 am to Bayou Tiger
That is way over the line. That's akin to asking to come home with you and monitor your personal behavior as part of the interview process. If you're applying for some top level management position I can see it, but for most employees it seems highly inappropriate and probably not all that useful.
Posted on 3/23/12 at 8:46 am to Bayou Tiger
quote:Then why wouldn't you simply tell the truth that you don't have a FB or Twitter account?
I would try to think of the most diplomatic way to tell them to go f*ck themselves -- and I don't even have a Facebook or Twitter account.
Posted on 3/23/12 at 9:10 am to LSURussian
quote:Because that is enough of a warning for me that the company has a "big brother" attitude. I want a company focused on results that lets employees do their thing to get them, not a bunch of micromanagers focused on workplace environment issues and touchy feely stuff.
Then why wouldn't you simply tell the truth that you don't have a FB or Twitter account?
Posted on 3/23/12 at 9:20 am to Bayou Tiger
Good luck on your future interviewing.
Posted on 3/23/12 at 10:17 am to LSURussian
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Then why wouldn't you simply tell the truth that you don't have a FB or Twitter account?
Speaking for myself, I'd be aggregated that they wasted my time.
They could have easily told me that they were running an Orwellian shop run by a Kim Jong Il wannabe before I did all of my interview prep, took my suit to the cleaners, took time off from work, etc.
Posted on 3/23/12 at 10:31 am to Bayou Tiger
Whoa, Justin was my intern last fall at bloomberg, I'm fb friends with him too lol
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