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LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Re: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Post by jklinger410 »

KiwiCoder wrote: post #29

I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see it as a commons that has been largely ruined by recruiting agents who are incentivised by their employers to maximise candidate throughput at everyone else's expense. There is some resi…

>I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend.

I think almost the exact opposite. Linkedin is still missing many features that could turn it into a bit of a game changer for business.

Maybe as a recruiting tool it's currently trash. I can get behind that. But if Microsoft manages to bring in a fresh set of users with some new features it could expand into something actually useful instead of a marketing hellhole.

Re: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Post by user5994461 »

KiwiCoder wrote: post #29

I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see it as a commons that has been largely ruined by recruiting agents who are incentivised by their employers to maximise candidate throughput at everyone else's expense. There is some resi…

It's good to me. I've changed jobs because of linkedin message before.

I also use it to keep track and keep in touch with previous coworkers.

Re: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Post by user5994461 »

pcurve wrote: post #52
Raphmedia wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why you should lie even to forms when asked for your salary.

Let's just all put down random number between $220,000 - $275,000 as base.

What if the UI is made for "normal" people and the highest option is "$150,000k+" /s

Re: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Post by vostok »

thesimpsons1022 wrote: post #75
vostok wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Empirically, we see the opposite happening and compensation data on websites like Glassdoor is actually too low.

to be fair, glassdoor still averages in salaries from 5 years ago into the current salary

That's part of it. People with higher salaries don't contribute for privacy reasons. They're also missing bonus/equity data for many firms.

Re: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Post by shortstuffsushi »

jklinger410 wrote: post #91
KiwiCoder wrote: post #29

I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see it as a commons that has been largely ruined by recruiting agents who are incentivised by their employers to maximise candidate throughput at everyone else's expense. There is some resi…

>I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. I think almost the exact opposite. Linkedin is still missing many features that could turn it into a bit of a game changer for business. Maybe as a recruiting tool it's currently trash. I can get behind that. But if Microsoft manages to bring in a fresh set of users with some new features it could expand into something actu…

Not to say it won't happen, but which fresh set of users would Microsoft bring? Who do you know that isn't on LinkedIn (registered, if not actively using)? And of those people, what features do you think would make them want to start using LinkedIn?

Re: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Post by yalogin »

allengeorge wrote: post #32

Hopefully LinkedIn won't ask me for my salary in the future. Cause I definitely don't trust them with my salary info. They'll sell it to everyone - recruiters, other companies...

What do you mean you don't trust them? The need the salary information only to sell to recruiters and companies. Any other value proposition they might come up with is purely bogus.

Re: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Post by user5994461 »

clifanatic wrote: post #18
hamandcheese wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What incentive do people have to lie about their salary (assuming it's anonymous)?

Well, if everybody else thinks that programmers make $200K/year, there's a chance that somebody might consider paying $200K/year. That seems like an incentive to me.

Nope. Lots of places can't pay that money. They'll still try to interview and hire people but they can't compete.

There is a very wide range of salary, skill and experience in tech. A single figure is not of much use. If anything it might be ruined by the vast majority of cheap companies (i.e. outside of Google/Apple/Facebook/... )

Re: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

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Post by johnward »

yalogin wrote: post #98

Its amusing to me that linkedin recruiters are the ones consistently sending me requests for completely unrelated jobs. The rest of the crowd seem to be at least related but linkedin recruiters just don't seem to care. Not sure why.

If someone goes through the work to find my email address then it's generally a related job. LinkedIn makes it too easy to spam.
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