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Public personal dev accounts: opinions? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like there are many devs out there who expose a lot of personal details and opinions all over the web. Maybe it's just me, but when starting out with the internet I tried my best to separate my personal details (name, age, sex, country, ethnicity, family ties, relationship status,...) from usernames in public.

Seeing devs do it willingly and voice opinions on divisive or sensitive topics kind of messes with me. Aren't y'all afraid of missing out on job opportunities if someone reads your opinions, code, or other stuff tied to your personal accounts? Or letting anybody (maybe family, friends, acquaintances, ...) in on your personal life, mindset, opinions and other personal information?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

An employer is unlikely to waste time on deep candidate analysis. If they see you as a public code contributor, it's an upside in activity, experience, and conversation starter, and discussion points for any interviews. If they look at your code, it won't be deep. I doubt they would go through the effort of correlating from a public coder profile (e.g. on GitHub) to a Lemmy profile and then look at their posts.

Once they're at the point where that would be a reasonable investment, they already know you personally and don't care about online content anymore.

Maybe some big companies use online analysis tools though.

Anyway, I know what I'm worth as a developer/an employed. I don't think I post that kind of divisive or sensitive stuff that does or possibly should be related to my employment and work. If they see it as such, then I'm fine with it not being a match.

I actually think the public nature could and should be upsides. Related to work or not.