[codystebbins]

I think this is cynical and forgets the reality of competition. In this 'big data hiring' future companies still need to compete for talent. Companies which hire on the basis of arbitrary factors like political views, porn habits, family infighting risk losing talent to competitors. There are incentives to find the right factors of a good employee, just like there are today. In fact a lot of these concerns can happen with the human interview process today.

The algorithm to hire people in this future is a competitive asset of a company and they would spend lots of time & money to narrow down the actual important factors. I highly doubt companies would just all settle on the same algorithm given the incentives to compete.

Also if you are concerned about this info impacting employment, just don't post it online. Not much different than today.

[quanticle]

> In this 'big data hiring' future companies still need to compete for talent. Companies which hire on the basis of arbitrary factors like political views, porn habits, family infighting risk losing talent to competitors.

Yes, but you forget the old banking maxim: it is better to fail conventionally than it is to succeed unconventionally. I think it's very likely that hiring managers would pass up the potential increased talent of an employee if that talent came coupled with increased risk that the employee would do something to embarrass the company or do something to make the company look bad.

>Also if you are concerned about this info impacting employment, just don't post it online.

So what do I do when the lack of online information about me in itself becomes a drawback?