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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by bongoman37 »

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…

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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by silisili »

codeTired wrote: post #12
btgeekboy wrote: post #11

Earlier 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've found it's highly area dependent. Basically the entire midwest is very MS heavy, and C# is still king.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by rmk »

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…

I enjoy visiting shlinkedin.com from time to time!

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by silisili »

gardenhedge wrote: post #128

The most surprising thing is that there's people who think LinkedIn used to be good. It was built by spamming people and grabbing contact books without consent. It's always been trash.

Yup. I installed LinkedIn not long after it was a thing, and just kinda clicked through the sign up flow. To my horror, it contacted every single person in my contact list telling them I was on LinkedIn.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by tombert »

ghaff wrote: post #124
tombert wrote: post #102

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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.

I don't have a facebook, but I don't think I post anything that's likely to get me fired to any social media. However, there's sort of a difference between "not being fired" and "being hired".

My political opinions are pretty normal (basically typical American lefty), and if my employer were to find a blog post I wrote about universal healthcare or something it's doubtful that they'd fire me. That's a little different than me plastering "BIDEN 2024!!!" all over my resume, and that's why I utterly hate LinkedIn.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by dadsquad »

ghaff wrote: post #124
tombert wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

anodyne, great word

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by paulcrecruiter »

notjoemama wrote: post #48
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…

If this adds a humorous twist on it for you, I saw someone describe it as like a dating site except it’s women trying to contact men and men ghosting them.

It's actually even more funny than this: it's beautiful women trying to contact nerdy men and getting ghosted by them :)

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

eesmith wrote: post #95
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #82

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None of those are “meme” languages. I appreciate Python started-off as a toy-like language - but its utility as a glue-language for serious number-crunching (see: how almost all ML projects involve Python somehow) and the admirable community surrounding it means its credibility is established. The worst thing anyone can say about Python is that it’s the new VBA. Rust is the new C++ - Microsoft wouldn’t be investing t…

> Python started-off as a toy-like language It did not. It started as a language do system administration for the Amoeba operating system. Here's part of the README for the first public release (0.9p1, available from python.org): "This is Python, an extensible interpreted programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax." "Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write pr…

You are correct.

What I meant was that - in the time after it was created for sysadmin tasks - but before it found it’s new home in data-science - Python was often used as a beginners’ language as a more modern and expressive alternative to BASIC - which led to its “toy” reputation - an undeserved reputation that it has successfully shed.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by nsxwolf »

jlarocco wrote: post #73
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…

> Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but not everybody is bothered by that. Most languages popular nowadays (C#, Javascript/Typescript, Java, C++, etc.) are popular partly because most devs can jump between them pretty easily. Definitely not defending Linkedin, though. A coworker of mine writes posts about his stance on abort…

On multiple occasions I have responded to a "perfect fit" type message on a tech stack mismatch, only to have it lead to a phone screen where everyone is confused why we're talking.
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