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And then watch my 8-email daily sales pitch to try and get you into my Bronze Level Circle
Bronze Level Mindset, surely? (I'll see myself out)
BRONZE LEVEL GRINDSET!
Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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#282Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#283Answer: because it's full of HR people. 90% of HR people are human toilets pretending they are doing manageriale roles for a living.
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#284I imagine it's kinda what it must be like living in the CCP: Everyone is self-censoring and putting forward a fake face in hopes of appealing to some nebulous authority that may or may not be watching. Facebook is becoming more and more like this which is why people are finally leaving en masse. Any network based on censorship is doomed to be replaced by one where people feel like they can be themselves. Will somethi…
That also describes the experience of 99% of people working in a normal office.
It can't be any other way.
It's made for those whose profile appears better than reality to begin with.
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#285Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#286Reminder for those who missed it, great satirical LinkedIn community that hit front page of HN some time back:
www.shlinkedin.com
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The JS "assessment" was all trivia and no substance.
What would an example of substance be?
Off the top of my head, it was edge cases of code to process in your head and write down the exact result the computer would output. Things like “what is the result of 1 + ‘1’”. And of course there was some kind of “protection” to keep you from copy pasting the code into the console which can be circumvented a number of ways. Too bad that wasn’t part of the test, it would actually be a better signal than their trivia questions.
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#288Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just getting old and tired. Maybe I'm just sick of the constant trolling, yelling and generally lots of people trying to out-asshole one another on so, so much of the internet. But I don't mind LinkedIn. I find the cynicism on display here very sad. Sure, there are plenty of narcissists and vapid people posting on LinkedIn. So? At least they're posting "inspirational" stuff, and you know what…
LinkedIn is to career-focused grown ups what Instagram is to those fragile about their appearance.
No that would be blind.
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I always feel compelled to reply: "I was rushing to an interview still drunk from the night before. I hit a cyclist, but just turned on my wipers and got there in time. After waiting 30 mins they told me my interviewer had been involved in a tragic accident, but as I was here would I like their CEO job?" #KeepClimbing #PressureWashYourFender
I swear to god this is something my father would repost. smh.
Give your mom my regards
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Forever ago, I created a Chrome extension that allowed you to annotate skills that had been endorsed by others with a "Hell No" label if you felt it was not deserved. For obvious reasons, it never got traction but got a few laughs on the podcast that inspired it, which was enough for me.
I mean unless it had a backend server no one would ever see the "hell no css styling" (and even then only others who also had the extension) so it doesn't really make much sense.
You're right re: needing a backend server, but that was kind of the point of it. You'd have to be "in the know" enough to install it and then you'd see the styling. It relied on Firebase storage for the backend piece. In the end, it was mostly for a joke in regards to ongoing discussion from an old Mule podcast. As such, it was just for fun anyways and never really intended to be more than that.