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Re: LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

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Post by jasallen »

memmove wrote: post #40
dsl wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I often describe LinkedIn as a bunch of business people, who have a website. It's not a tech company and the hiring reflects that.

dsl, no offense, but you seem to have a problem with any company that doesn't hire/provide employment to your average local community college CS grad and instead hires globally based purely on merit. Linkedin interviews are on par with facebook/google et al.

I don't know anything about dsl's commenting history, but this comment sounds elitist. Not sure if you meant it that way, but your point would have been made without the implication that top schools are a requirement to be globally meritorious.

Re: LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

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Post by tmandarano »

pinaceae wrote: post #75
fixxer wrote: post #42

I'm done with LinkedIn. I've been on the fence about it for a year now. I get more recruiter spam than value. I'm also a bit too old for the schadenfreude that accompanies news of my overpaid friends getting canned. I'm running my own race these days and I've never been happier since I stopped comparing my lot in life to the few lucky SOBs I know that survived the cull of sub-prime. I think a better strategy is (1) y…

LinkedIn's value is not centered around your personal profile - it's about the other people that are linked to you and will always have an up-to-date CV/contact details for you. It is a self-updating rolodex, Outlook Contacts list, phone book, whateveryouwanttocallit. I really don't want to bookmark 300+ individual pages that all have different creative layouts, get moved, etc. My LinkedIn profile stays up-to-date, y…

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Re: LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

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Post by mkopinsky »

tmandarano wrote: post #92
pinaceae wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIn's value is not centered around your personal profile - it's about the other people that are linked to you and will always have an up-to-date CV/contact details for you. It is a self-updating rolodex, Outlook Contacts list, phone book, whateveryouwanttocallit. I really don't want to bookmark 300+ individual pages that all have different creative layouts, get moved, etc. My LinkedIn profile stays up-to-date, y…

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You already upvoted him. No need to comment to that effect.

Re: LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

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Post by calt »

bad_user wrote: post #88
diminish wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

linked-in's value is also linked somewhat to your curiosity to check who has viewed your profile.

This feature was interesting, but on the other hand it affected my own ability to look at other people's profiles - because, no, I don't want people to know that I looked at their profile. Which is why I completely disabled it. Having the ability to see who viewed your profile seemed cool at first, but then again, it's useless and the downsides are great.

Quick link for the setting to browse anonymously: https://www.linkedin.com/settings/?tab=profile&modal=nsettin...
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