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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by o116172854 » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:34 PM UTC

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…

4chan is way better than HN, sorry.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by __loam » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:36 PM UTC

jldugger wrote: post #141

danny_taco wrote: post #78

I'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…

Plus, 90 percent of what recruiters do on LinkedIn is basically already automated by LLMs.

God please no. I already have to yell talk to a human to get my problem solved with support phone calls. I really would rather not get spammed by AI bullshit. If you're trying recruit me, at least have the respect for my time to get a human to talk to me.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by o116172854 » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:38 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #14

codeTired wrote: post #12

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Unfortunately my tech stack isn’t very popular with HN, SQL/C#. Maybe it’s time to reskill.

Naah. C# and .NET is solid. I am doubling down on it even for startups. Doing my next product in it.

I love PHP and I'm unironically doubling down on it.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by winphone1974 » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:40 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #142

tombert wrote: post #41

Earlier 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…

> some job applications even require it! I've never encountered this, but if I did, I'd be pretty thankful for the advance warning that I would not likely enjoy working there.

There's very little correlation between a company that's deeply integrated with LinkedIn tools and what it's like to work there. If you're going to judge all companies based on their recruitment toolchain, good luck finding an acceptable position!

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by tayo42 » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:41 PM UTC

acjohnson55 wrote: post #205

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…

Yes, but I also find it's one of the best remaining social media platforms for talking about craft. Unfortunately, it tends to suffer from toxic positivity that's almost the inverse of Twitter's ability to incite fights. There's almost an implicit "let's make each other look good" dynamic. Although, you do occasionally see controversial engagement bait too.

That's pretty much corporate culture? Have you worked anywhere that wasn't like that?

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by winphone1974 » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:45 PM UTC

gumby wrote: post #125

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…

You can just use it in the original way: simply look at profiles, make the occasional requested intro for someone you actually know to someone you actually know, and maintain your resume. I have ignored the drive to turn it into a social network and it pretty much works the same as it did when it started. For example, when I have a meeting with someone I always look them up on LI first, to see if we have something in…

I agree! I think it's actually easier to avoid the big, weak network because it started as a professional tool. I curate my connections and don't accept every recruiter or sales person who sees it as yet another marketing channel. It's been invaluable for reaching out to my former coworkers to try and recruit them

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by codegeek » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:45 PM UTC

o116172854 wrote: post #233

codegeek wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Naah. C# and .NET is solid. I am doubling down on it even for startups. Doing my next product in it.

I love PHP and I'm unironically doubling down on it.

Me too. PHP has paid bills so far for me but I am getting more into .NET for the future for various reasons and to be honest, not disappointed so far.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by myaccountonhn » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:47 PM UTC

thisgoesnowhere wrote: post #104

Unrelated, but linkedin has the most user hostile notifications of any site I have ever seen. I got a notification to follow a podcast the other day. Not a person I follow asking me to follow it, it was a notification saying "here is a random podcast do you want to follow it." How the hell is that a thing that companies can buy?

It’s bananas how much they spam you

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by winphone1974 » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:52 PM UTC

o116172854 wrote: post #233

codegeek wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Naah. C# and .NET is solid. I am doubling down on it even for startups. Doing my next product in it.

I love PHP and I'm unironically doubling down on it.

There's lots of good "serious" php out there, the challenge is it has been so accessible there's even more garbage php that's crowded out the go stuff.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by pronik » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:52 PM UTC

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…

Probably very few people here are familiar with Xing, the German "business networking site". I was convinced LinkedIn would eat Xing's lunch when they launched in Germany, since the same happened pretty fast to Facebook and its local clone (StudiVZ). However, it hasn't happened then and only now some small tendency for people to prefer LinkedIn can be noticed, but mostly because of international contacts and not because the site is all that great.

Anyway, in the last couple of years, Xing also mutated from a business contact network to a wanna-be Facebook social network, with memes, neurotic posting, outreach metrics etc. Instead of being a contact backbone, it's become an attention leech, basically the same experience as you describe for LinkedIn. At least in case of Xing, it's more or less known that they have been infested by product managers for a long time, whose only metric for success has ever been "innovation (tm)", so it's explainable, but still stupid. I suppose same could be happening at LinkedIn, even though they never have been good to begin with, palatable at most.