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If you haven’t tried fediverse apps yet, you should.
“Hey sorry hiring manager but your instance isn’t peered with my instance so you can’t see my job history.”
LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#222I'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…
This isn't the first round of layoffs there
4% in May this year according to https://layoffs.fyi/
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#223Has 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…
>Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform?
Seeing as it's somehow the only social network to spam my email (I never even touched LinkedIn) endlessly? Yeah, it's been shit for many years. Even by social media standards.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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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…
That explains why they were asking for Putman scores when hiring engineers around the time they started.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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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.
Yeah, I basically use it for online resume storage.
For years LinkedIn languished as the site everyone was on, but nobody actually used for anything. But I have actually gotten a couple of leads from it now.
The feed is trash though, for sure. And you have to laugh at the endless parade of bimbo pictures attached to accounts that are supposedly "recruiters." Unprofessional and insulting.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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I think it's even worse than that. I've seen a lot of crazy political discussions there where people, fully identifiable, are just losing their minds, saying racist stuff even. I have no idea why people would be willing to risk their jobs like that but I see people from Fortune 50 companies doing it. Crazy
That is something. I stopped reading it entirely sometime last year but don’t recall the crazy uncle effect. What was mentioned sounded similar to what I experienced, including the memes—-but I didn’t realize it was sinking so low in becoming Reddit on a bad day without the anonymity.
Literally it was worse than almost anything I've seen on reddit.
Idk if they put a stop to it or not but it was madness
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> In other words, it's like living in a Nordic country. What’s this about? Do Scandinavians have a reputation of being fake or something?
They have a reputation of being real; that is the problem.
The Finnish word kalsarikännit means "that feeling when you are going to get drunk at home, alone, in your underwear — with no intention of going out" (I am given to understand)
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#228Has 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…
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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#229I 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".
Can’t imagine being an exec and getting paid to “write” this dribble
They're paid to be the hatchet man, not for writing this. When the shareholders tell them to swing the ax, that's their job.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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> 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.
Depends on the situation.
My current job is primarily using a new-to-me language (C#) on a platform I hadn't used in 10 years (Windows), and though I have some buyers remorse (Windows is still terrible), everybody was on the same page about my skills, I've picked up C# easily enough, and it's worked out fine so far.