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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by starcraft2wol »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #193
jlarocco wrote: post #73

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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…

> A coworker of mine writes posts about his stance on abortion. Pro or against? [That was a joke. Please don't answer.]

I think the real joke here that one would be socially acceptable for HNers so we already know what they posted.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by starcraft2wol »

paulcrecruiter wrote: post #158
notjoemama wrote: post #48

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If this adds a humorous twist on it for you, I saw someone describe it as like a dating site except it’s women trying to contact men and men ghosting them.

It's actually even more funny than this: it's beautiful women trying to contact nerdy men and getting ghosted by them :)

Besides the joke, I think it can help you sympathize with women in that situation as well, and maybe improve your dating :) You can start to see why lots of attention still feel shollow.

Yeah ok, people are sending me jobs... do they even know what I do? This looks automated, they probably send a million?

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by joshuamcginnis »

moneywoes wrote: post #207
joshuamcginnis wrote: post #80

I just paid for a "Premium Career" account and it was $250 for one year or $39.99/month. I've gotten my $250 back from consulting leads through LinkedIn, but it stills seems high for the value to the average person.

May I ask what type of filters you used and how did you write messages? Hoping to get into to consulting

I don't do any outbound messaging. Someone just read one my posts and reached out. That's sort of the ideal way to land customers; have them come to you. It's still hard, just in a different way.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by makeitdouble »

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.

It was trash, but dealing with recruiters has always been, and keeping professional network into a separate space was the saner thing to do.

In that sense, I think it worked as intended: people would only need to react to recruiting mail, and that only during the spans they cared about moving careers.

The whole "tell your life on linkedin !" promotion pushed by Microsoft clearly degraded that part.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by about3fitty »

starcraft2wol wrote: post #272
paulcrecruiter wrote: post #158

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It's actually even more funny than this: it's beautiful women trying to contact nerdy men and getting ghosted by them :)

Besides the joke, I think it can help you sympathize with women in that situation as well, and maybe improve your dating :) You can start to see why lots of attention still feel shollow. Yeah ok, people are sending me jobs... do they even know what I do? This looks automated, they probably send a million?

For me, it’s messages like “How’s it going at City and County of San Francisco?”

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by pembrook »

JohnFen wrote: post #164
pembrook wrote: post #90

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That’s one way to look at it. Or, it could just be that, during the covid boom years they overhired to support growth that never materialized, and now they’re stuck with a bunch of overpaid freeloaders (sitting at the top of each salary band) who are neither experts in the business nor uniquely talented/useful/needed.

> now they’re stuck with a bunch of overpaid freeloaders Interesting how even though in this scenario it's the company that did the wrong thing, it's somehow not possible to mention it without putting some blame on, and insulting, the employees that were hired.

You’re correct, it’s unfair of me to insult newer FAANGM employees without also insulting the lazy, overpaid, freeloading lifers who set the wrong hiring targets at said companies.

I use the term freeloader because the truth is…network effects exploit an inefficiency in human social dynamics that’s so powerful, it produces monopoly-level market capture and profits. So it’s a fair assumption to make that anyone hired at a network Monopoly money machine like LinkedIn will, inevitably, turn into a do-nothing freeloader (not necessarily through any fault of their own).

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by _dark_matter_ »

hatthew wrote: post #253
djoletina wrote: post #177

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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.

Couldn't agree more. I lived in the middle of nowhere USA bc of my spouse and an amazing remote job found me on LI, circa 2015. Would never have happened otherwise

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by networkchad »

vmfunction wrote: post #215
djoletina wrote: post #177

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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…

Wow interesting! I've being using LinkedIn since it first started, and honestly this is first time I have heard a positive story that is not written by MS or LinkedIn staff or related people. I guess a broken clock can be right 2 times a days. Still won't touch LinkedIn with a 10 feet pole since the MS take over.

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