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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by mrbonner »

ramenbytes wrote: post #165
mcpackieh wrote: post #117

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Surely this is just shitposting.

You'd hope as much, but it reads very similar to other serious corporate-speak. Take the explanation for why Keysight Technologies is called Keysight Technologies: 'The name Keysight is built from two English words: key, meaning indispensable or essential, a means of access; and insight, meaning the power of seeing, having vision and perception. The name connotes seeing what others cannot, having the critical or key…

I also don't see anything wrong or cringe with the explanation.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by mrbonner »

pydry wrote: post #38
mrbonner wrote: post #18

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Yeah mine news feed has turned into a condescending stream of thoughts buried under the empathy offering agendas.

Or this: https://d2u3dcdbebyaiu.cloudfront.net/uploads/atch_img/442/f...

Jesus, I hope this guy is just posting a sarcasm. This reminds of a post from a guy (SDE2 in Amazon) I remember, leaving Amazon and posting how great he was as an engineer and a bar-raiser.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by zeroCalories »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #188
zeroCalories wrote: post #42

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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?

Have you tried searching Google jobs, Indeed, or...LinkedIn? Your milage may vary, but these are typical results for large tech cities.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by zeroCalories »

rmk wrote: post #148
zeroCalories wrote: post #42

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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.

Calling Python a meme language has to be one of the more hilarious things I have read on HN!

Python is the original meme language!

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by dgudkov »

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.

LinkedIn is the only social media where we can have a meaningful social following as a small software company. It has a positive impact on our sales.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

ravenstine wrote: post #283
ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #225

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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.

Speaking of "bimbo" recruiters, some of them are low key phone-sex operators. I had an experience where one of them reached out to me about a job over the phone. She had a hot-sounding voice and the job seemed intriguing, so I figured I would give it a shot. Her LinkedIn photo was stunning. Yes, I sheepishly admit that I was taken in by her and this influenced my decision to even consider a random job from a recruite…

Hahah, wow, I haven't engaged with any of them, but that's a fun anecdote. Thanks for confirming.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by kuchenbecker »

switch007 wrote: post #222
selectout wrote: post #209

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This isn't the first round of layoffs there

4% in May this year according to https://layoffs.fyi/

May was mostly limited: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/tech/linkedin-layoffs-exit-ch...

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by marcod »

olyjohn wrote: post #111
marcod wrote: post #77

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Tell me one area that has not gotten more political or partisan in recent years.

Are you actually defending posting that trash on LinkedIn?

I'm not a fan of this development, though Msft invited it with their social-mediaization of Linked In ...

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by eesmith »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #159
eesmith wrote: post #95

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> Python started-off as a toy-like language It did not. It started as a language do system administration for the Amoeba operating system. Here's part of the README for the first public release (0.9p1, available from python.org): "This is Python, an extensible interpreted programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax." "Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write pr…

You are correct. What I meant was that - in the time after it was created for sysadmin tasks - but before it found it’s new home in data-science - Python was often used as a beginners’ language as a more modern and expressive alternative to BASIC - which led to its “toy” reputation - an undeserved reputation that it has successfully shed.

It is hard for me to accept that historical interpretation as I started using Python back in the 1990s, when it was already making in-roads in steering high-performance computing codes. NumPy's roots date from that era.

In 2002 it seemed that half the attendees of the Python conference were there because of Zope.

I was programming full-time by 1999.

So for me Python was well-established in several areas far before its wide-spread use in computer programming education or its use in data science.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by nroach »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #284
88913527 wrote: post #192

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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.

I recently pointed out to our corporate security that a data broker has detailed employee records for our entire company including job titles and start dates. Given the nature of our business, that data cache is a roadmap for security compromises. The most likely culprit was scraping from LinkedIn. It isn't always a good idea to put your data out there for others to aggregate.

Some companies supply that information voluntarily. Experian (iirc) even has a product offering that ‘helps employees qualify for loans and demonstrate stable earnings’ if the companies will just only send them payroll history. So it may not have been scraped necessarily, just “shared” in the ordinary course of business.
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