[lkrubner]

I have a blog and no employer has ever looked at it, even though I list the blog on my resume.

I walk into interviews and the interviewer often starts off by asking something basic such as "Do you know what object oriented programming is?"

My best known essay is "Object Oriented Programming Is An Expensive Disaster Which Must End." The essay was discussed here on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420060

Anyone who Google's my name will discover this and many other essays. Yet I've never met an interviewer who knew that I wrote these essays.

When I started the blog I kept it strictly professional and strictly about technology. But as the years went by, I realized that no employer would ever look at it, so I started posting political things. At first I worried that employers would see this and avoid me because of the politics. But no. I routinely walk into job interviews and the people who talk to me have never looked online for any information about me.

Seriously, in the last 10 years I've had 6 jobs and 30 freelance clients. None of them every looked me up before I arrived for the interview.