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Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by RonanTheGrey »

stallmanite wrote: post #432
RonanTheGrey wrote: post #404

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You're exactly right... In fact there is a girl on Twitter with a very large following (>800k) who spends all her time hunting down people on social media who have ever in their lives said anything that could be construed as "seriously questionable" (whose definition changes according to the times). She's gotten incoming freshman kicked out of the colleges they were accepted to. Fired from their jobs. Businesses clos…

So who is this horrible girl on Twitter who’s destroying lives? Surely naming names in this case would be justified.

More than likely doxxing is against the rules here but her first name is Skai and shares a last name with a famous singer. Not hard to find.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by archon810 »

I find LinkedIn immensely useful for finding out who works in certain roles at certain companies, then reaching out to them directly, say on Twitter, to report a bug in their software.

It's been a proven strategy that works time and time again compared to the void that eats up bugs reported to large companies (if you can even figure out how to report one).

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Post by NotSammyHagar »

cactus2093 wrote: post #400
NotSammyHagar wrote: post #388

He says people switch jobs around the 2 years time frame, which is surprising and short. Is that true, an avg say in tech? I have been doing that but I didn't realize it was that common. In SF I've heard staying a year is the goal to get stock, then after that look for the next thing.

Well there's not one single "the goal" that everyone follows. Some people are genuinely happy to be working for a company they really believe in, some people are looking for experience to level up their career/rise up the corporate ladder/start their own company in the future. If you're just looking for a payout, going to a bunch of startups for 1 year and then moving on and collecting equity from all of them is an i…

I think you are right that fang companies are the place to make money, better than startups. I've spent 2/3 of my career at fang and 1/3 in startups. Startups are fun but I really benefitted by a solid engineering start.

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

stared wrote: post #449
mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #444

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It’s crazy to me that you ask this, as though “treat candidates with respect” or “give candidates fair due process to explain their past or background” or “avoid seeking out biasing information before giving a candidate a chance to represent themselves” need some extra justification to be considered as part of a “good screening process”.

> It’s crazy to me that you ask this, as though “treat candidates with respect” Well, THB, hard to fight with this strawman/framing. Not sure what you consider "respect" other than "believe 100% what they say and write about themselves, however suspicious", don't consult anyone (even companies/people they wrote themselves in Resume / on LinkedIn), etc.

This is why I think it’s crazy. Suddenly “believe people and give them a fair chance” is strawman level unusual and needs scare quotes?

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Post by matallo »

karussell wrote: post #164

Maybe a bit unrelated but who else has always serious page rendering issues when visiting LinkedIn? I do not visit it often but there are so many problems lately that I doubt that I'm the only one, especially since all other sites are fine. These problems appear when I open LinkedIn pages in a tab or for the initial rending but also just when I click on new messages or 'Start'. Is it because of Firefox and/or uBlock…

I can confirm about the rendering issues, obscure errors, and the use of uBlock Origin.
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