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Dear god I hope not. I guess I am sheltered as an engineer? I would say no to anyone so fast if they asked for a Facebook or twitter account, and I never have heard of this. Do you have sources on this being a prevalent practice? Have you been asked?

Edit: unless you mean Linkedin or something like github as a social account?

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unless you mean Linkedin or something like github as a social account?

Those count, unfortunately. But I'm skeptical that a "github resume" matters much.

LinkedIn seems to matter a lot more strictly for getting offers from recruiters, though.

> But I'm skeptical that a "github resume" matters much.

It doesn't. I don't know why people on HN think it does, but in real life, most people I've worked with ave empty GitHub accounts.

I've had an interviewer suggest to me that I open a Github account, to improve my chances of getting an offer. After the interview was already over and was already rejected. But I already had an active Github account, and nobody ever asked me in the interview if I had one. So I was confused by the suggestion.

> LinkedIn seems to matter a lot more strictly for getting offers from recruiters, though.

One of the great reasons not to have a LinkedIn account. Those aren't offers any way. They're just shotgunned spam to users with > 10% keyword matches.

no, its just a morning brainfart, the most ive had is someone mentioning in an interview that they couldnt find me online. it just struck me as something which may cause an issue, i too have made a point of never having had a social media account in my life, i was just wondering how recruiters and managers etc felt if they did their checks on only to find absolutely nothing

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