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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not using gmail for personal email hurts me both socially and professionally, & has probably kept me out of the running for jobs

Wait, I'm sorry, what? Can you elaborate on this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I’ve had interviewers send me google docs locked to a google account, sent to my personal email which they probably assume is a redirect to Gmail in the background. And then when I write back and say, hi, thanks, could you share this a way that I don’t need a google account, they get extremely skeptical. These days I have a stub Google account I keep around specifically for places that are going to force me to use Google, but even then I have to write back and say “could you provide access to this email address and not that one“, and again, the interviewers get weird and sometimes don’t write back.