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Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by nikita2206 »

gspencley wrote: post #140
evanelias wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like the quality issue is only getting worse over time. Yesterday I received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter that began with "I wanted to reach out as it is almost the end of the year" ... The same recruiter previously emailed me in December and did not use that phrase, so it's not like he always copy-and-pastes the same thing. However, in his December message, he misspelled my name (which is only 4 letter…

My personal pet peeve is when recruiters talk about the qualifications and tech stack at length but completely leave out what the product / company is. I know there are a lot of devs out there, particularly junior and intermediates, who are looking to work with their favourite tools or something they've not worked with before. But after 25 years in the industry, having worked with several "stacks" and programming lan…

I find this is much more often emphasized by developer interviewers.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by thevagrant »

belter wrote: post #127

Dont forget about all their tricks over the years. We got post-truth recently, but one day, post-ethics will catch up with SV companies. "LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716451 "LinkedIn accesses Gmail contacts via ‘auto-authorization’ " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769494 "Stop Using LinkedIn" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9…

Wasn't LinkedIn the one who used to access people's emails to farm contacts? They did it by testing the password signed up to LinkedIn against common mail services (Hotmail). If the users used the same password across both services then their email got trawled.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by freedomben »

You can definitely do it without Linked In, but Linked In can really help. Everybody who interviews you is going to look for your Linked In profile and it will be a little weird if you're not on there.

Obviously this is just my anecdotal experience, but I've been on all sides of hiring at many different companies, at several startups and a couple of big corps too.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by belter »

thevagrant wrote: post #172
belter wrote: post #127

Dont forget about all their tricks over the years. We got post-truth recently, but one day, post-ethics will catch up with SV companies. "LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716451 "LinkedIn accesses Gmail contacts via ‘auto-authorization’ " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769494 "Stop Using LinkedIn" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9…

Wasn't LinkedIn the one who used to access people's emails to farm contacts? They did it by testing the password signed up to LinkedIn against common mail services (Hotmail). If the users used the same password across both services then their email got trawled.

https://casetext.com/case/perkins-v-linkedin-corp-6

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by enigmatic02 »

It's a good way to get recruited, but no you can definitely get away with resumes and referrals into jobs without a linkedin profile.

LinkedIn is also better for big tech, hard to do research on smaller startups. For that, I prefer using crunchbase and topstartups.io

Re: Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

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Post by rosgoo »

I'm actually currently building a LinkedIn alternative to fix a lot of the pain points in this thread: https://leapful.dev/

- Minimalist social network for engineers: no feed, no messages from anyone not in your network.

- Input ideal job criteria and get matching and vetted job requests with standardized fields instead of paragraphs of texts from random recruiters.

- Private, no Google Analytics, and open-source.

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