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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by JustLurking2022 »

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 solution is aggressively unfollowing or disconnecting from people. There may still be a lot of low value interactions, but at least I don't have to see them.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by yumraj »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #121
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 mont…

> HN does have a job board:

That’s not a generic job board. It’s only for YC companies.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by anilmr »

paulcrecruiter wrote: post #158
notjoemama wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

lol, https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-hotz-b3866476/ - George Hotz of comma.ai uses LinkedIn for dating ;)

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by JohnFen »

pembrook wrote: post #90
criddell wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I read these stories, all I really hear is that these companies have lost all ability to innovate and invent. They've spent a fortune on these people, carefully choosing and then tuning them to be experts in the business and now they can't think of anything for them to do? They should be embarrassed.

That’s one way to look at it. Or, it could just be that, during the covid boom years they overhired to support growth that never materialized, and now they’re stuck with a bunch of overpaid freeloaders (sitting at the top of each salary band) who are neither experts in the business nor uniquely talented/useful/needed.

> now they’re stuck with a bunch of overpaid freeloaders

Interesting how even though in this scenario it's the company that did the wrong thing, it's somehow not possible to mention it without putting some blame on, and insulting, the employees that were hired.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by ramenbytes »

mcpackieh wrote: post #117
pydry wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Surely this is just shitposting.

You'd hope as much, but it reads very similar to other serious corporate-speak. Take the explanation for why Keysight Technologies is called Keysight Technologies:

'The name Keysight is built from two English words: key, meaning indispensable or essential, a means of access; and insight, meaning the power of seeing, having vision and perception. The name connotes seeing what others cannot, having the critical or key insight to understand and unlock the changing technology landscape.

Keysight reflects what's in our DNA, what we strive to provide to our customers - the key measurement insights engineers need to accelerate innovation and ultimately achieve success - whether they see success as being first to market, increasing their differentiation, ramping up production, or achieving lower costs of test within a rapidly changing technology landscape.

According to Ron, the name Keysight "captures the spirit of our new company - innovative, insightful, and forward-looking, with the special kind of vision to sort through the rapid technological revolutions and anticipate customers' needs so they stay one step ahead."'[0]

So I'd say all bets are off.

[0] https://www.keysight.com/blogs/keys/2018/09/25/keysight-and-...

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by oblio »

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.

Microsoft sort of cleaned it up, even. Says it all, really.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by ogn3rd »

Xenoamorphous wrote: post #7
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 a humble-bragging cesspit.

It really is!

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by anilmr »

JustLurking2022 wrote: post #161
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 solution is aggressively unfollowing or disconnecting from people. There may still be a lot of low value interactions, but at least I don't have to see them.

LinkedIn has been showing algorithmic feed from 1st, 2nd, & 3rd degree connections for a while, but they recently started aggressively showing out of network content for engagement. So unfollowing might help to filter out speicific people, but it won't stop your feed from getting cluttered with unrelated posts from some random person.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by koyote »

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.

You're right, it's always been awful, but it's actually gotten worse which is something I did not think was possible (Facebook quality 'news' feed, constant awful captchas and popups to name a few).

I only look at it once every couple of months to check up on old colleagues. If I am looking for a job I am forced to use it more often, but mostly just the messaging part. The feed is something I think most people can safely ignore.

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