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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by jackbravo »

anilmr wrote: post #163
paulcrecruiter wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

I thought this was a joke, but then he puts it right in his profile:

> PLEASE READ PROFILE. While some people use LinkedIn for "networking" and advertising their "personal brand," I use this site exclusively as a dating platform. If you are intelligent, attractive, female, in or visiting San Diego, and perhaps a bit out of the norm, I might be interested. Send me a message and invite me out for a drink! (and please make it clear you are asking me on a date) All non-dating related messages will be ignored.

But at the same time seems like it is a failed platform for him too:

> UPDATE. LinkedIn is too full of faux career climbers and not enough dating opportunity. Follow me on Instagram @georgehotz

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by CoastalCoder »

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's one thing LinkedIn gets very right about job searches: remembering if I've indicated that I'm not interested in a particular job posting.

That massively improves the signal-to-noise ratio over e.g. Google, who's daily updates show me mostly the same jobs from one day to the next.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by CoastalCoder »

charles_f wrote: post #179
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 spent some time a while back to "unfollow" everyone on linkedin apart from a very few select individuals. I unfollow people by default everytime I have a new connection. My wall is uneventful, but at least I don't feel like I'm going to facebook everytime I connect (which is rare)

Kind of related:

One day I decided to rapid-fire dismiss all of the "suggested connections" that LinkedIn was putting in front of me. I probably dismissed 200 in a single sitting.

The next day(?), I got a warning from LinkedIn that my account was being audited for misuse or some such thing.

Although I was manually dismissing those suggestions, I'm guessing it tripped some bot-detector or something.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by [deleted] »

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".

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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by anilmr »

jackbravo wrote: post #181
anilmr wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I thought this was a joke, but then he puts it right in his profile: > PLEASE READ PROFILE. While some people use LinkedIn for "networking" and advertising their "personal brand," I use this site exclusively as a dating platform. If you are intelligent, attractive, female, in or visiting San Diego, and perhaps a bit out of the norm, I might be interested. Send me a message and invite me out for a drink! (and please m…

haha, guess LinkedIn didn't help him with dating.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by mandmandam »

tombert wrote: post #175
mandmandam wrote: post #155

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Holy crap did this topic take a nosedive. My point wasn't even to "dismiss" COVID conspiracies, just point out that I didn't really want them on my LinkedIn wall. But fine. > Then there was the vaccine effectiveness, which was claimed as 100% but actually was well below that. Same for their preventing transmission, which was nonsensical. I think there's literally no one that claimed the vaccine was 100% effective; ce…

Your memory has some holes in it friend.

> literally no one that claimed the vaccine was 100% effective

Well, apart from the President of the US [0], and Pfizer themselves [1], and many others.

> I don't recall anyone saying it was racist for saying Wuhan was an origin point

Many, many people claimed this; including a NYT reporter [2] and WaPo [3].

> I cannot speak for anyone else, but I don't think this was ever disputed.

Yes, this was heavily, heavily disputed. Even Nature claimed mRNA was superior [4].

I hope you reflect on the fact that it took me only about 5 minutes to dig up these links, and that what you called a "nosedive" can now be seen as an educational experience.

[0] - https://news.yahoo.com/ap-fact-check-biden-inflates-01184362...

[1] - https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

[2] - https://www.thewrap.com/new-york-times-covid-lab-leak-apoorv...

[3] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-media-cal...

[4] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06629-2

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by CoastalCoder »

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

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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.

> 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.

Now I'm starting to wonder if I'm caught in a job-search bubble.

Can you list a few job posting sites you consider normal?

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by low_tech_love »

GMoromisato wrote: post #83

I agree with all the takes about LinkedIn turning into a bad social network, but is that intrinsic to its design or is it something that happens no matter what? Is there a way to design a site--at the UI/policy level--to end up with a community that doesn't suck? For Hacker News, for example, is what we like about it just a consequence of the current set of members (in which, case, it might change eventually), or is…

HN engagement is not (for now?) directly related to any significant "real-world" metric, meaning that (for now?) people are not using it as an indicator in a CV or anything like that. Having a lot of points here also does not lead (at least as far as I know) to any significant "real-world" social engagement between its users. As soon as such a score exists, human beings will start to optimize it in some ridiculous and disgusting ways.

I also suspect that moderation is heavy, but I have absolutely no idea about how it works, who does it, etc. I've never seen moderators engaging with the community here, which means that probably moderating itself does not add to your social score.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by spicymaki »

First off sorry for all of the employees that will be affected by the cuts. On one hand, it seems that if there is a contraction in the employment market, there would be less need for LinkedIn job boards and the staff around it. On the other hand, Microsoft is doling $69B for Activision Blizzard and I assume that money needs to be made up from some where. I can't imagine what is going to be like Activision Blizzard employees after the merger.
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