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Not that guy, but also a (not-software) engineer. Coding is really great for a few things:
- Software stuff is in really vogue right now. Like there’s demand for all engineering disciplines in my area, but software guys are the hot position, with pay to match.
- Even if you’re not software, knowing a little is helpful for other stuff - e.g., whipping up some quick and dirty test interfaces, or interacting with older systems with non
- It also really, really helps for little things at home.
Unfortunately I cannot actually write code to save my life, but it’d be real useful if I could!
In some circumstances, I have heard of employers asking prospective employees to expose their social media accounts during the hiring process.
In most cases, this seems to be just a formality check of “Is this person exposing their previous company’s info / making threatening statements / generally being an asshole of some kind?” or, in one case, to determine if someone was an anti-vax/anti-science type before they started a medical position.
This wasn’t done by an “agency”, though, and they really didn’t look that deeply. In some cases it seems to come with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge “So these are tooootally all your accounts, riiiight?”