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

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Post by encryptluks2 » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

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'…

I did. I deleted my LinkedIn account. Too much spam. My personal information was constantly being shared despite telling LinkedIn I didn't want them to. I still get a few emails per week where they shared my email address with recruiters. I'd rather not work with recruiters anymore at all. In the future the best opportunity will be from my website or direct contact.

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

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Post by nsonha » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

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…

tell me how you find job posts, do you disklike the concept of a search engine for jobs?

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

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Post by jacquesm » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

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.

HN humor at its best.

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

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Post by pwim » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

Google has been encouraging job boards to add structured data to job postings: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure.... LinkedIn is presumably using this data to pull the postings in.

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

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Post by derekbaker783 » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:15 PM UTC

t_mann wrote: post #68

wyclif wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One way to mitigate that somewhat is to never put your age online. I plan on being 39 for as long as possible.

Your CV kinda gives it away though...

Drop everything beyond N years...

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

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Post by jollybean » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

It feels 'off' but I'm not sure this is bad.

Your recruiter probably doesn't mind and of course, people legit looking for jobs don't.

It's literally free advertising.

It's also just another form of 'specific journalism' - bloggers and journalists report on everything that is public.

I suggest what they might want to do is make it clear in the header that 'these are jobs posted on that site' or something like that, and maybe make a bit more clear that if you create company profile that it does this by default and it can be turned off.

Given that it's mostly helping all around, I wouldn't suggest this as a 'dark pattern' so much as 'awkward pattern'.

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

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Post by arwhatever » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

On a positive note, I always visit LinkedIn whenever I suspect internet connectivity issues, because it is (or at least feels like) one of the more cumbersome sites to load, from the top of my mind.

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

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Post by vlunkr » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

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…

To be fair, who ever wanted a work-based social media platform? People have accounts because it’s expected as part of the recruiting process. The only people I see posting on there are embarrassing “workfluencers” sharing each other’s content into the void.

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

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Post by bArray » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

> It appears that LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings from other places on LinkedIn and other sites such as angel.co if the company name of the job posting matches your company name on LinkedIn.

The irony when LinkedIn get so upset about people scraping their website.

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

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Post by kingkongjaffa » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

patrickkidger wrote: post #75

gtirloni wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 foun…

I had the opposite experience.

'tech twitter' is full of junior developers, developer advocates, and students, all trying to sell e-books to each other or virtue signal their way into a dev advocate role. I only found content creator and tech influencer sales pitches.