How dumb would it be to take an interview on your company computer?

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How dumb is it that I’ve definitely done this and not once paused to consider if it might not be a wise move 😑

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I have a stash of burner laptops just for interviews and nefarious zoom activity. Once the zoom is over, I bend the screen backwards, snapping it off, and throw the two halves into a River, lake or other extremely large and permanent body of water.

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Lol been doing this and just got a new job using it

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I have never taken a zoom interview *not* on my company computer

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In my experience, companies have way more important things to do than monitor closely activity on employee computers. Did one yesterday lol.

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I have nude photos of myself on my work phone. Rookie.

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My brain is struggling to understand your comment.

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Same as above.
Every video chat interview I have ever had has also been on my work computers.

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I’ve done interviews at the office. Yolo.

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Is it bad that I use my company’s Microsoft Teams account for interviews?

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Ah ok. The companies that I interviewed set it up as a Microsoft teams meeting but I don’t have a personal Teams account so I used my work on.

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I’ve done it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Every interview over the last 12 years has been on company computers. Nobody’s actively monitoring or the IT guys that would, probably would flag it if you work with other agencies on other cross promotion.

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Wouldn’t flag*

IT needs to make sure hundreds of computers are running well, all slacks emails webexes zooms teams, and servers are all up, hundreds of video calls happening every day, with various companies and vendors. Do you really think they are checking every single one and asking what those calls are about?

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The fun part also is going “you’re spying on me?? I do t want to work here anymore…”

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Got my job doing this. If it’s using teams, join from the browser for extra peace of mind :)

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Honestly, there’s nothing your boss/company can do.

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