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      It’s really useful when you’re looking for a job though. They have better job searches than everyone else. Though I wish they would get some better salary data.

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      I absolutely hate the platform. It sucks it’s even a requirement to get a job in any tech job (at least where I’m from, I heard it spread to other fields in other countries i.e hire a gardener on linkedin). The fake positivity and support for corporate overlords is just difficult to swallow.

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        The cringe land. That place was cringe it made me sick. “The fake positivity and support for corporate overlords is just difficult to swallow.” Is the perfect way to describe that shit. I always got second hand embarrassment reading that cringe shit. God damn. I got rid of it a long time ago. Recruiters are the absolute filth of the earth. They made me hate that site even more.

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      I lost all respect for an attorney I worked with when I saw that his LinkedIn was just covered with DeSantis/Abbott praise during COVID. The firm I was with did estate planning. We were so swamped in estate planning and probate (meaning a client had died) we had to bring on multiple new people to handle the caseload.

      And this motherfucker was totally onboard with anti-mask garbage.

      So I guess LinkedIn KIND OF works in that it tells you who the idiots are.

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      A lot of these large over employed places don’t hire for the extra Labor. They hire because it’s a way to prevent competition. Why would an employee leave to join a competitor or create a competing start up company if he’s being paid well to do next to nothing?

      The only problem is that’s only financially viable when interest rates are low and investors are willing to give out cash like it’s candy.

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    Err maybe I’m just not seeing it… but nearly 700 out of how many? It makes a big difference if it was 700/1000 vs. 700/10,000.

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    I had to tell a job lead (not via linkdin) that I don’t frequent the site and please contact me directly. They did, it was like we never needed it. I freelanced most of my work and I never got a gig from a job website/social media platform.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Microsoft-owned social media platform LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees, it said in a statement Monday.

    About 668 positions across the company’s engineering, product, talent and finance departments will be eliminated.

    “We are committed to providing our full support to all impacted employees during this transition and ensuring that they are treated with care and respect,” LinkedIn said.

    Website membership also grew for the past eight quarters to more than 950 million accounts.

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the time the company is “seeing organizations in every industry and geography exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one.”

    There have been mass layoffs across the tech industry, including at Amazon, Google and Meta.


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