Ouch. And to think these people will have to to use their former product to get a new job. The only time you really need LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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#22Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted. I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. Can someone please develop hacker news…
Worse than that. For me, in recent months, the volume of adverts and 'suggested''s feels like it's been throttled up so much that it's completely overwhelming the majority of my personal networks output ... which is the only reason I'm there.
Potential RIP in a matter of weeks/months ... frustrating.
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#23This really feels like a prompt for one of those “write your own punchline” exercises.
"You appeared in 1 purge this week"
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#24I really admire the creative bullshit these execs come up with, AI can't compete: "This means adapting our organizational structures to improve agility and accountability, establishing unambiguous ownership and driving improved efficiency and transparency through reduced layering".
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#25no surprise. the website is quite bad, to put it politely. the experience just really sucks.
This is especially true if you haven't had One True Career Path.
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#26Is there some reason all of these layoffs are happening today?
Quarterly earnings.
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#27Is there some reason all of these layoffs are happening today?
MSFT earnings are in 8 days
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are monthly who’s hiring and who wants to be hired threads that seem to fill that niche.
Unfortunately my tech stack isn’t very popular with HN, SQL/C#. Maybe it’s time to reskill.
I supported a C#, .NET. SQL Server platform at my previous job. It was rock solid.
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#29Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted. I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. Can someone please develop hacker news…
Yep. Check out /r/linkedinlunatics
Any overlap with /r/ImTheMainCharacter ?
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#30Is there some reason all of these layoffs are happening today?
Microsoft (who owns LinkedIn) reports quarterly earnings in ~1 week. For public companies, timing it around an earnings call can help control the narrative since the company will have a chance to explain to investors why the action wwill increase shareholder value.