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LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by Aleksdev »

vmfunction wrote: post #214
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 have not touched LinkedIn since MS took over. And I'm not surprised by what it has become. Pretty much when a big corp takes over a social media this can be expected. Please get off LinkedIn. It is a cancer of digital society.

That’s not an option for many. Some jobs require LinkedIn just to apply!

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by rcpt »

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…

One of the fun things about LinkedIn is figuring ways to filter the auto recruiter messages and his is pretty great tbh.

I've been using »FirstName LastName« in my profile and when I get emails addressed to »FirstName I know they're from a machine

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Post by hatthew »

djoletina wrote: post #177
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.

I dunno, it literally got me to a 180k salary (Eastern Europe based so astronomical) just by me having a profile there. I didn’t have to find a job since 2015 thanks to it. You might argue that the feed is shit, but to me it’s normal human behavior trying to stand out and abusing everything that you can (including feed algos), so I just don’t look at it. I’ll be forever grateful to LinkedIn and I would never be in th…

Seconded, my current employer found me on linkedin, and this is a much better job than my second place option.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by temp0826 »

dadsquad wrote: post #157
ghaff wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's not much I would post on Facebook that would cause me heartburn if a potential employer were to see it. (And most of my Facebook friends would be profoundly uninterested in most tech topics I would post on.) But, yeah, I keep my LinkedIn--to the degree I use it at all--very anodyne except to the degree you have relatively extreme opinions on specific tech topics.

anodyne, great word

It's a perfectly cromulent word

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Post by liquidpele »

nlh wrote: post #114
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…

I think it’s an intrinsic byproduct of any site/community that puts an algorithmic feed optimized for “engagement” front and center. By our nature, we engage with things that ping our extreme senses, which is the core reason Facebook and Twitter have gone to complete crap. Clickbait is truly bait and we are just angry raging fish if baited sufficiently. I think it’s absolutely possible to have a community that doesn’…

It’s also nice to have the tiniest filter via a UI that takes more than one brain cell to figure out.

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Post by netsharc »

adonovan wrote: post #110
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #64

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Is there a name for the specific kind of moderate-level of mental anguish I felt when reading that?

"Consultant"

The sad thing is if that guy was doing a presentation, there'd be middle managers and C-Level people nodding while being inspired...

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by _jab »

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?

I'm pretty sure that these companies always try to give you at least one notification a day, so that you never log on to see nothing new.

Agreed that it's user-hostile, but it's presumably effective as a retention tactic.

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Post by thebigman433 »

btgeekboy wrote: post #11
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 are monthly who’s hiring and who wants to be hired threads that seem to fill that niche.

For me, the biggest challenge is that the job listings on whos hiring are almost never hardware based, so it pretty much completely eliminates it. There are some hardware listings on the ycombinator job search portal, but its pretty minimal and the search tags are kinda meh. Just wish there were more hardware startups in general.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by alexpotato »

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.

I always liked Bill Gurley's take on LinkedIn (paraphrasing):

"I only ever accept connection requests from people I 100% know to be honest, smart and good judges of character. That way, if I meet some new person, I look them up and see they are connected to someone I know: I immediately call the shared connection and ask their opinion."

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