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Hi fishies! Are there any recruiters from Facebook (Meta) who would be kind enough to review my resume and give me some feedback? From my perspective I’m a candidate for some of the roles I’ve recently applied for and also have experience as a contingent worker there and would like some honest feedback so I can reassess and reapply. Thanks so much in advance!
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No iMessage, personal email, social media, or interviewing/prep.
I use it for Spotify or online shopping or random research (restaurants, events, etc). Basically I use it for anything I don’t care about working knowing about if someone happened to see it.
Lol. I don’t even have a personal laptop. Don’t be like me. Buy one. I’ve worked in big tech, mid tech and no tech and never gotten into any trouble for using my laptop for personal things, but I guess I don’t do anything that might be “suspicious”.
No to iMessage unless it’s a work phone, yes to music- and lol apply for jobs on there as a power move to show your employer you have options
I do it all
same. i use my laptop for everything - when Im home, i use it to stream as well.
None of the above
Agreed. No to everything. Use your phone for all non-business things.
Eventually buy your own laptop.
Ive seen people post the whole “my whole life was on my work laptop and now laid off & work laptop is gone”
I know money can be tight, but low-end laptops are cheap these days. Don't put your whole life on your work laptop.
Stuff like job search should stay separate, unless it's for an internal transfer. You'll likely use work email for that so they can see you're a potential transfer and not an outside hier.
As someone who does corporate security and monitors people’s web traffic here’s what I can say:
In short: Stick to your phone
CAN:
- stream music on a web browser (ex: long YouTube mix, Spotify online) -> don’t download anything
- watch Hulu and stream videos after work hours
- iMessage other work phones
DONT
- access your personal email
- download any personal information to a work computer, anything downloaded can be viewed by your corporate IT
- apply for other jobs on your work laptop
Check your company’s acceptable use policy, you should’ve signed one of those when you joined. It states what’s allowed/not allowed on company devices
A good rule of thumb for corporate systems is to assume that everything is monitored. So even if not expressly forbidden, don’t do anything on there that could be used against you if they are trying to build a case to fire you or have information transit through that you do not want corporate to be aware off.
No imessage, no job hunting interviewing, no LinkedIn messaging.
Yes ordering food, booking trips, buying stuff
No to any of it.
Get your own laptop , keep work on work and nothing else. It’s important to have that line drawn. Also remember you are not entitled to any privacy on company owned property. They can log every keystroke , website , etc. If they so wish.
Ask your superior. If they say it's fine as long as it doesn't break any company decorum or blatant rules then yes(checking espn scores yes, xxx site obviously no). If they say no then it's a no. No one person on the internet can tell you what YOUR company allows.
We had a sales guy who had a issue with his laptop. Sent it over to IT and they saw he was interviewing with other companies using his work email. He was fired as soon as they found out.
Probably company policy. Not worth risking your job over someone who’s planning to leave anyway
No iMessage.
I don’t do banking, bills, or other non-work financial business on my work comp.
Music and movie streaming are fair game.
A basic laptop for browsing, watching streaming, listening to music can be bought with really little effort. Get one and use it for your own stuff. You can use a subscription to google suite & drive / microsoft office/Onedrive for your documents and stuff you want to keep track.
Even just as a way to mentally separate when you are "on work" and not, having a separate device is definitely better.
I use mine for pretty much whatever, anything except Netflix, Hulu, etc.
I do nothing unrelated to work on my employer’s laptop.
Yes: hotel booking related to the job, maps, sometimes music, always the morning meme I send to my team 😀
No: personal email, banking, job hunt anything, streaming tv/movies, messaging denigrating the employer.
I know they monitor the crap out of us.
I don’t even join my phone to the WiFi (except lunchtime) - I wouldn’t put anything past them.
Big no. Just stick to your phone or personal laptop. Even if there's no express prohibition, avoid any circumstances that would put you in a bad situation.
Nothing personal EVER on my work laptop. Strictly business!
Assume they see everything. I have iMessage on mine because I wouldn't mind them seeing my texts. I don't text much and there's nothing interesting to see. Don't download anything, save personal pictures etc. Nothing you wouldn't be okay with losing or with others seeing. I do some leetcode on mine which could be construed as interview prep or just keeping fresh. I watch youtube videos (coding videos or the news mostly). I check up on my kids daycare streaming. I use LinkedIn, but mostly thats work related since people ask questions if they've applied to a job similar to mine or are asking for referrals.
never! If I need to do something, and I don't have my personal laptop with me, I'll remote into my home machine via anydesk. Even then I'm not doing anything work would consider a serious offence.
I assume the eye is always watching. I’ll use it for personal use but I’ll also remote into my personal PC for anything I wouldn’t want to discuss with the boss.
I've used mine to DJ in a pinch.
My current company openly stated to have no expectation of privacy. So no chance I would do anything personal on my work equipment.
My last company didn't seeeeeem to care, so yeah.. I applied for my current role, and interviewed for it, all on their equipment.