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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by johnnyanmac »

codeTired wrote: post #6

Has 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…

It's not very subtle. I watched a 2 minute clip of 5 men working together to save a dog from a river. And that was loosely connected to a generic post about how team work is effective. Sometime in the last 5 years LinkedIn just became a slightly more formal variant of FB/Instagram.

>Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs

HN does have a job board: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

And monthly there is a "Who's hiring" and "Who wants to be hired" thread automatically posted.

Nothing for my domain there but I check it a few times a year.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by imhoguy »

smeej wrote: post #25
hknmtt wrote: post #5

no 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.

And if you work remotely for most of your career but they tie you to your living location.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by JohnFen »

deepspace wrote: post #100
izzydata wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meatspace. I don't think any digital platform is ever going to fill that role. By default anything online is already way less genuine feeling.

> Meatspace Easy to say flippantly, but my colleagues (let alone my network) are distributed across 10+ countries on four continents. My local 'meatspace' has nothing to offer me career-wise. A professional network needs to be online.

But it doesn't need to be through a third-party website. It's entirely possible to cultivate and maintain such a professional network by directly communicating with people. That's what I do, and it causes no trouble.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by ghaff »

tombert wrote: post #102
mauliknshah wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further to that, my feed have been filled with Certification posts. Folks would boast about their 3 hour Certification courses with long cringe posts! And LinkedIn would not stop it, because they need to sell LinkedIn Learning!

Honestly, if it were just people bragging about how they took a 3 hour class and got a useless certification, I don't think it would bother me. LinkedIn markets itself as a glorified resume, and it's pretty common for people to fluff up their meaningless certs. I just feel like there should be somewhat of a boundary between personal and professional life. There are things I would say to my friends that I wouldn't tel…

There's not much I would post on Facebook that would cause me heartburn if a potential employer were to see it. (And most of my Facebook friends would be profoundly uninterested in most tech topics I would post on.)

But, yeah, I keep my LinkedIn--to the degree I use it at all--very anodyne except to the degree you have relatively extreme opinions on specific tech topics.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by gumby »

codeTired wrote: post #6

Has 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…

You can just use it in the original way: simply look at profiles, make the occasional requested intro for someone you actually know to someone you actually know, and maintain your resume. I have ignored the drive to turn it into a social network and it pretty much works the same as it did when it started.

For example, when I have a meeting with someone I always look them up on LI first, to see if we have something in common.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by LapsangGuzzler »

orsenthil wrote: post #118

I disliked LinkedIn during "layoff season". It was promoting a false narrative, folks were sharing that were "affected" and people who had the job, sharing their story of how difficult it was for people who were let go. What was the point of all this? There wasn't truth in any (or many of these) of these posts. Folks were sharing what they thought worth sharing, mostly to gain more attention. That said, I think, we s…

> Folks were sharing what they thought worth sharing, mostly to gain more attention.

This is what influencer culture does. There’s very little value actually shared on LI nowadays, most valuable content for me comes from tech-specific groups and a lot of that is just aggregated from newsletters.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by duxup »

codeTired wrote: post #6

Has 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…

My perception was that… at least 5+ years ago. I’m on there only if I need a job, otherwise it is dead to me. There is no content I have any interest in on there.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by confidantlake »

btgeekboy wrote: post #11
codeTired wrote: post #6

Has 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…

There are monthly who’s hiring and who wants to be hired threads that seem to fill that niche.

I tend to see the same stuff over and over again. For example one place has been hiring their third engineer for the last 3 years. But I suppose every job site is like this.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by [deleted] »

asynchronous wrote: post #62
coldcode wrote: post #24

I 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".

Can’t imagine being an exec and getting paid to “write” this dribble

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