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LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#32It is one of those companies I wonder
how many people you really need to run it.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#33Can we expect folks impacted by these layoffs to post to linkedin about how great the experience of a layoff is?
I don't know if they are still doing it but very many years ago, they'd give you LinkedIn Premium for life.
No access to internal tools like DopeFlows and Merlin but honestly that was over half a decade ago, I bet most people that work there didn't even know they existed.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#34Has 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…
People are now posting about politics there. That's the death knell imo.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#35Gonna be a bit awkward reaching out to new potential employers... using LinkedIn.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#36Has 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…
the irony is that your comment is being "liked" in droves , lol
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#37Has 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…
The business model of linkedIn is a bit messed up. It pretends to offer something to you, the individual. Yet you are not paying for the site, so you are part of the product not the customer. The real customers are companies (advertising) and recruiters (self-described raw meat to be had). However, linkedIn seems to have messed up with that business model as well. Because recruiters wants recruits - not just a mailing list of people who are not interested. This leaves only the advertisers, thus turning even more recruits from visiting the site, therefore making the site less interesting to recruiters. A downward spiral, really.
Recent offerings of linkedin Learning seems to be attempts to mitigate this but at the core of the problem really is that the site offers very little value to recruits. Maybe there are some smart business model people around that could fix that, who knows. The space is ready for dis-ruption.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#38Has 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…
Yeah mine news feed has turned into a condescending stream of thoughts buried under the empathy offering agendas.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#39Has 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…
I made the mistake of answering to an antivax post (something like “yeah “we” survived the Spanish flu and other pandemics but always at a horrible cost.” And my feed turned awful, I report posts on a regular basis now.
Other than that, it’s still the way to contact anyone, I mean anyone I remotely know or knew.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#40Is there some reason all of these layoffs are happening today?
Ritual sacrifice to the quarterly gods