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by apohn 1854 days ago
>My biggest annoyance is with the company General Motors who requires your entire social security number to be interviewed contract.

When did you experience this? Was it recent? I've interviewed for multiple jobs at GM over the years (multiple locations, not just Detroit) and I've never been asked for my SSN. The last one was in 2016, and I even got an offer (that I turned down) - they never asked for my SSN but did say it was needed for the background check if I had accepted the offer.

At a previous job I worked for a GM vendor. So I interacted with a lot of GM folks and did some of their required virtual training associated with the ignition switch scandal and being able to communicate those types of violations up the chain. It really seemed to me that GM is very careful about any type of situation that could result in lawsuit.

If they are asking for SSN's now as part of the recruiting process, that strikes me as really strange.

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It was 2019