Will using non-gmail hurt my chance of getting hired?

If someone legitimately cares what email provider you use and uses that against you in the hiring process, chances are it’s not a place you’d want to work anyway.

That probably depends more on what is before the @. Is your mailadress a gamertag or some random thing you came up with as a teen? "Superbunny69" probably has a lower chance of success than "lastn.firstname"

Are you trying to be hired by Google? Then, maybe ;)

More seriously, I don't know if this matters. Do people really care about the address?

I've been using my own domain names for decades, what I'm using behind that name doesn't show. But I'm also old enough I don't need to worry about (un)pleasing any potential employer.

Unfortunately, I have seen some CEO's that will refuse employees using anything other than major services, like Google, Apple, etc.

I did see one specifically mention he will not interview anyone with a Proton email address because it wasn't considered "professional".

It's certainly ridiculous, but big business is ridiculous.

How risky is it for Google sanning those mails in terms of privacy?

Afraid to tell you but Google already scans thousands emails if you use proton or not. The company you are sending mail to likely uses gmail internally. Does not matter how private your end is if the other end is wide open.

Though I am not convinced that anyone would care if you use a non gmail account for any technical role. Hell add a custom domain to proton and you can hide the fact you are using proton and create a even more professional looking address.

No job/recruiter/interviewer will ever care about what email provider you use.

I don't think it should matter and if it did matter, do you really want to work for such small-minded judgmental people? The people who would care about an uncommon email domain would probably also see it as a "red flag" if you say that you don't use certain social media sites. Don't waste your time playing pointless image games.

I’ve hired people and my wife has been in a position to evaluate applicants for a job.

What we have learned is that choosing an applicant is super subjective. Different things impress my wife and I in an applicant. (We work at different places)

Additionally, once I instructed applicants to do something specific in their application, but someone didn’t follow the instructions. Turns out the thing I said not to do when applying was actually much more helpful than I thought.

So even though a few people applied the “right” way, the girl who did it “wrong” got the job.

So when you apply, it’s mostly a matter of checking the right boxes and getting lucky.

I work in HR. No one cares.

if your domain is like cock.li or smth then maybe, but protonmail.com sounds pretty professional

When places look at resumes, they're looking at communication skills, education, experience, and work history. They're looking for lies and exaggerations. The poor bastards have probably been through 60 resumes a day and they're just hoping to find a keyword here or there that isn't like the other 60 resumes.

If they're unscrupulous they're also looking at your name and trying to figure out your race/gender.

As long as the email address and content you provide exudes professionalism, and the email works, They don't care at all.

As far as privacy, forget it. The business you are working with is already certainly using Microsoft or Google, they're vetting your email address and content through a spam filter. In most cases you are private email has no longer private the second it gets to any company.

I use public@mydomain. Hasn't negatively affected me. I created a burner Gmail account for a Google Meet interview and then tossed it aside after. I've been hired for two jobs in eight years using the public@ address.

As many have said, it shouldn't matter.

Personally, I have been known to look at email addresses because I assess everything the resume gives me. No, I don't really care what provider you choose, but it's a tiny bit of information.

So if your email name is "BigBootyQT" then I have a glimpse of your personality and how you may or may not fit in the role. That's a real example BTW. It also might bear light in other ways, say if you're applying for a job in cybersscurity but you're using a yahoo email. Yeah, that's a negative mark.

Will any of this be THE reason I ditch somebody? No. But it weighs with the rest of it. I would not disqualify somebody for a typo for instance, but it is a negative because that should not have occurred (especially of the role requires attention to detail).

@umami_wasbi Getting hired for what exactly?

My gut feeling is it might decrease your chance of getting hired by an average soul destroying big corporate, but increase your chances of being hired by a better company that values autonomy and people who think differently.

This can be applied to many other aspects of how you come across. Better to be genuine and let that exclude you from the bad roles, and improve your chances with fewer but better ones.

Employers most of all want to know that you're reachable and willing to jump hoops. If you want to be seen and hired by the status quo, then yes you will need to show that you pray to the same Holy Trinity as them:

LinkedIn   GitHub
       \   /
        \ /
       Gmail

You can then feed this professional gmail account your.name@gmail.com into your private Proton.

I don't see any reason why it would affect your application(s) in the slightest. A good CV is a good CV. You could have @goatfondler.com for all I care.

No, I actually purchased a domain and mapped it to my proton mail, every time I share my business email, I get compliments towards how professional I am.

I would be surprised if this mattered, but I don't know for sure. The more serious problem would be if your sent emails get caught in their spam filter.

A lot of companies use Google mail anyways so your emails will be scanned regardless.

No, they don't care unless you been denied once, auto reject, they will reject if you apply again with the same email address. I used different emails for different job resumes, I rotate to new ones, if use one more than a week

seems like companies who know what proton is, would have no problem with it. some of their people would use it themselves.

companies who never heard of it wouldn't have any bad impression about it.

if they never heard about it but are wary/scared of everything they never heard of, might not be safe to work there. that's the kind of place that would test their workers' loyalty randomly, and not reciprocate any loyalty they receive.

My boss never cared about my disroot email. He just asked what is was

It will not hurt your chances.

It shouldn’t matter. When you get hired, they’ll give you a new email address to use.

Shouldn't make a damn difference! Ask this person to explain their thought process

I use my own first@last.com (well actually it's last-net.com because I couldn't secure any better domain. It's too common.)

Never had an issue.

Protonmail is a widely used and common email provider. There is no reason why an employer would be prejudiced against your application based on you having a Protonmail address. I think a far more common thing employers think about when seeing applicants' email addresses are things like "haha, they're still using their email address from when they were 8 of alexdaboss at gmail dot com", but I highly doubt they care about what domain it's on unless you've got like a pornhub.com address or something.

I use first@firstlast.tld I bought my firstlast.tld several years ago. Figure it would look good. I then put a modified resume on my domain but when I started to think about being a security professional that didn't seem like a good idea. I now have my domain bring up the IP, browser, and few other pieces of info and show it to whoever goes to the site. It is either that or blank page and I think the first is more fun.

It's all good, especially now that they have proton.me when it was protonmail.com I had some issues saying it over the phone as some people didn't understand and it is long to spell.

Proton leaked a user's IP address to law enforcement, you should seek alternatives. source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/