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.

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.

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

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.

I work in HR. No one cares.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.