I didn't get the impression that only company accounts were being audited, since the article ends with mentioning how new hires are forced to share their personal handle.

New hires share their personal handle because that is the only handle they have; i.e., they have not played games on their company-provided accounts yet.

You don't need to share your primary account, you can theoretically apply for the job with a secondary, or none.

This isn't exactly strict separation of personal life, you are basically working at a specific venue and playing at that same venue just without your uniform; people know and you won't last long in similar situations elsewhere either (unless you're maliken/s2 games)

> New hires share their personal handle because that is the only handle they have; i.e., they have not played games on their company-provided accounts yet.

So, are you saying that once they acquire a company provided account their personal ones are no longer audited? That doesn't seem to be the case at all.

No, I think they are saying that you are asked to share your handle and new guys tend to hand over their 'real' one. While you might just as well create a 'I apply at Riot' one earlier. Or (no idea about that) claim that you don't have one perhaps?

I feel like if you told them you don't have an account or have a level 1 account, they would be far less likely to hire you.

So you have a primary account that you play on, then apply to riot, and then create a new account that Riot doesn't know about where you call your jungler cancerous garbage. Easy peasy.

Unless you're playing your alternate account via Tor or a VPN or something, Riot can presumably notice that both accounts are used from the same IP and put the pieces together. And that would be a long way to go to hide your behavior.

This is terrible.

Why? Anecdotally I know several people who got hired at Facebook without having an active Facebook account.

Riot does seem to require playing LoL[1]. Not sure how is Facebook relevant here.

[1]A random job posting from Riot http://www.riotgames.com/careers/10838

"While our engineers come in all shapes and sizes and work with many technologies, we expect every engineer at Riot to be:

Player-focused: you’re a gamer whose passion for games (especially League of Legends)"

Thanks for the citation! Wish I hadn't been downvoted for asking an honest question, but this clears things up.

I have not downvoted you but I imagine many people here do not like non sequitur arguments.

It's not a non sequitur at all. Just pointing out that it's not unreasonable to imagine someone working somewhere without being a user of that company's product.

Is that even legal?