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Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by raunak »

gtirloni wrote: post #21
smcl wrote: post #17

They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…

> Surely this kind of thing will eventually come back to haunt them? I doubt it. Network effects matter and nobody is switching from LinkedIn for fear of missing out. There is no other work-related social network like it. It's different with FB/Instagram that there isn't much at stake so people will just switch to test something and then stay. With LinkedIn, the "what if I miss a job opportunity?" factor means there'…

Blind would be a cool one but it kinda defeats the purpose.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by divbzero »

smcl wrote: post #17

They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…

My hope that Microsoft’s professional oversight would be a healthy moderating influence has not panned out.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

#75

Post by patrickkidger »

gtirloni wrote: post #21
smcl wrote: post #17

They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…

> Surely this kind of thing will eventually come back to haunt them? I doubt it. Network effects matter and nobody is switching from LinkedIn for fear of missing out. There is no other work-related social network like it. It's different with FB/Instagram that there isn't much at stake so people will just switch to test something and then stay. With LinkedIn, the "what if I miss a job opportunity?" factor means there'…

From personal experience: possibly Twitter. Having a presence there has given me several serious offers to interview, for jobs worth having (FAANG and similar).

The folks in my field (ML/applied math/scientific computing) are all on there, and moreover those reaching out to me are always technical folks rather than recruiters.

(Twitter gets a bad rap, but the academic/dev parts of it are the single best way I've found to track the Zeitgeist of fields and topics I'm interested in.)

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by reillyse »

tedmiston wrote: post #31
f6v wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the opposite experience. I don’t get any messages from recruiters after having set the appropriate preferences. And I use LinkedIn to connect to relevant people in my field.

Consider yourself lucky. I get hundreds per year. Maybe 1 in 50 are decently relevant. Many are mass spams. A good amount will be in tech I have no interest in, haven't worked in in over a decade, or have never worked in. It's clear the messages are sent without ever actually reading your profile or even job titles. I wish there were a way to control only the handcrafted / non-spam messages reaching my inbox.

I have a PhD and so have Dr as my first name on LinkedIn.

All the automated messages address me as if Dr was my actual first name, So “hi Dr” or “Dr,…”

So it’s a good filter for all the machine created messages, which is a very very high percentage of them.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by TedShiller »

divbzero wrote: post #73
smcl wrote: post #17

They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…

My hope that Microsoft’s professional oversight would be a healthy moderating influence has not panned out.

You might notice that Microsoft has destroyed all of its acquisitions

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by rsweeney21 »

rsweeney21 wrote: post #71

This has been happening to us for over a year. We contact support, the posting gets removed, and then a few weeks later it is back. It's infuriating.

We've also had a HUGE influx of fake accounts in the past couple of months claiming to work for our company. According to LinkedIn we have 243 employees! In reality, we have 23.

See for yourself: https://www.linkedin.com/company/facetdev/people/

How are these accounts not being automatically flagged as fake?

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