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This article is calling bullshit on the trend story of interviewers asking for Facebook creds. HN has credulously bandied this story about for the last week; here, it seems only to have retained the last graf of the story.

So: have any of you actually been asked for Facebook creds in an interview?

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Exactly, why not out the companies who ask for this, preferably on Facebook. Then anyone who still wants to work for these companies can be prepared, or have a fake profile ready to go.

I tried going down the road of finding specifics that could be verified. Here's one claim:

"There are several companies that are now revising their HR policies so that providing your FB password on a steady basis is a requirement of your continuing employment. You've already been employed 5-10 years? Provide it now, or be fired tomorrow."

http://politicartoons.livejournal.com/3026559.html?thread=70...

The poster rattled off some company names, but when I pressed for specifics, like how she knew these things, she claimed that I was "in the pay of a corporation as part of a 'hit squad'."

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