Apparently LI had a reputation of being a rest-and-vest company, even chiller than Microsoft proper. Is there any truth to that?
LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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#192Has 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…
You can have a LinkedIn profile but not use the feed-- I don't see how that's necessarily frustrating. Make a profile, provide the link on job applications. Occasionally edit your profile so it's up to date. Then, don't use it. Simple enough.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#193Has 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…
> A coworker of mine writes posts about his stance on abortion.
Pro or against?
[That was a joke. Please don't answer.]
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 dis…
The "nosedive" was specifically because people like you cannot stick to a topic and instead make everything about COVID conspiracies, as I already stated.
That said, I'll give a look to your links, though I seriously suspect that they don't validate everything you're saying.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#196Has 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.
Oh right and then it suggests me the exact same job ad and slightly grays it out. What. The. Hell.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#197Earlier 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…
You can have a LinkedIn profile but not use the feed-- I don't see how that's necessarily frustrating. Make a profile, provide the link on job applications. Occasionally edit your profile so it's up to date. Then, don't use it. Simple enough.
Sure, but a lot of companies post job listings on LinkedIn as well. I could (and mostly do) ignore the homepage, but I still see it occasionally.
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#199All of these "rockstar" employees shouldn't have a problem finding new jobs. Right? Right?
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Oh right and then it suggests me the exact same job ad and slightly grays it out. What. The. Hell.
I could see the ability to re-visit such postings being useful on occasion.
No idea what LinkedIn's reasons are, but I think grayed-out is good enough. If nothing else, it's light-years beyond Google's approach.