Never in my experience (as a software developer) but that might just be Canada
As someone in a salaried tech job, I’ve only had one require drug tests: an investment management company. They said it was an SEC requirement
I’ve never had a company ask about my social media accounts. I m sure there’s some sort of background check but I have no way of knowing
I’ve only ever had to pass a drug test for low paying hourly jobs. I’ve never been tested for a salaried position.
If you work in certain fields of engineering then you have to pass a drug test. The only job I have had where I wasn’t drug tested was my hourly IT job before getting my degree. I have never had to give out social information and I never would.
That’s interesting to hear. I started out as a web dev and made quite a few transitions until I got the title software engineer, bounced around a few companies until I settled at my current job and since I got that first salary job have never been asked. I even did a short stint of security work a company that had a decent amount of government contracts when I was desperate.
I honestly didn’t think they were still a thing outside of maybe directly in government positions.
I’ve been through about 8 tech jobs in my nearing twenty years of experience. The only drug test I ever had was when I worked at a tech company for a hospital, and I declined.
Even the gov job did not require a drug test. Maybe because it wasn’t federal government, or there was some loophole with contractors, or something else. I definitely had friends who had to do drug tests with government contracts.
I typically laugh at drug tests. I live in a legal state, I don’t use anything, and the fact that you can take cocaine every day for a year and stop for a few days, and you’ll still pass. It’s stupid and I’m fortunate to be in a position where it’s an extremely rare question to ask in my industry.
