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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by jldugger »

danny_taco wrote: post #78

I'm surprised it took this long for LinkedIn to do layoffs. The amount of recruiters looking for candidates, tech companies hiring, etc. has gone down since the beginning of the year. As such, the income from LinkedIn that is tied to job postings has decreased. In order to continue looking good on paper they have decided then to layoff employees to cut costs. The same thing has happened at other companies that make m…

Plus, 90 percent of what recruiters do on LinkedIn is basically already automated by LLMs.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by JohnFen »

tombert wrote: post #41
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 extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you're sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook. From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don't put my vot…

> some job applications even require it!

I've never encountered this, but if I did, I'd be pretty thankful for the advance warning that I would not likely enjoy working there.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by packetslave »

imhoguy wrote: post #113
joshuamcginnis wrote: post #80

I just paid for a "Premium Career" account and it was $250 for one year or $39.99/month. I've gotten my $250 back from consulting leads through LinkedIn, but it stills seems high for the value to the average person.

The first month is free to try and may be rather enough to find a permanent job. But indeed the pricing is high bar especially for an ocassional freelancing.

Also, if you try to cancel and give "too expensive" as a reason, they'll give you a discounted rate.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

olyjohn wrote: post #120
belval wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm all for criticizing empty corpo talk, but that quote is actually pretty reasonable and not empty. They are just saying that they are simplifying their organizational chart so that they don't have teams with overlapping responsabilities. It's just a polite way to say "we noticed that we had 2 teams doing the same thing so we merged them and dropped the resulting excess headcount".

They had 700 people doing redundant work? Good thing they waited until there was potential for a recession to actually decide to look into that. Excellent business leadership.

It seems reasonable that a business would accept more bloat in good times than bad. The risk profile changes when the forecast changes.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by eecc »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #64
pydry wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or this: https://d2u3dcdbebyaiu.cloudfront.net/uploads/atch_img/442/f...

Is there a name for the specific kind of moderate-level of mental anguish I felt when reading that?

Vicarious embarrassment

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by [deleted] »

fullshark wrote: post #34
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…

People are now posting about politics there. That's the death knell imo.

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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by rmk »

zeroCalories wrote: post #42
codegeek wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Naah. C# and .NET is solid. I am doubling down on it even for startups. Doing my next product in it.

I think his point is valid though. While I see C# listed all the time on normal job posting sites, on HN it's always the sexy meme languages like Rust and Python.

Calling Python a meme language has to be one of the more hilarious things I have read on HN!

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by tombert »

JohnFen wrote: post #142
tombert wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you're sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook. From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don't put my vot…

> some job applications even require it! I've never encountered this, but if I did, I'd be pretty thankful for the advance warning that I would not likely enjoy working there.

I can't remember where, but it was a fairly typical form where you put your name and information, upload your resume, required fields have a red asterisk, and the LinkedIn profile was required.

Now, I have no idea how much parsing they actually did; you might have been able to put "asdf" to make it validate.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by confidantlake »

Hamuko wrote: post #136
confidantlake wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If they've been trying to fill a single position for three years, I imagine they've tried other mediums too and the problem isn't just where they're posting the ad.

They aren't actually trying to fill the position, it is just an add masquerading as a role.
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