[HN Gopher] LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell
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LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell
Author : austinallegro
Score : 87 points
Date : 2025-11-27 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| duxup wrote:
| Is LinkedIn ... worse because of this ChatGPT scenario?
|
| The negatives the author talks about, just sound like LinkedIn on
| a good day.
|
| Personally I'm never on there outside of when I'm looking for a
| job and I'm honestly not reading anyone's posts...
| fennec-posix wrote:
| I mean, LinkedIn was like this before ChatGPT. The advent of
| LLMs just made this sort of corporate shitposting explode as
| everyone could now write one with such little effort.
| mnky9800n wrote:
| I feel like for science it's like how Twitter used to be with
| regards to finding new and interesting papers. But I wish
| people were banned from using LLMs for anything post related.
| You might as well replace those posts with ads.
| kodama-lens wrote:
| It has gotten way worse since the Ai rise. Before it was the
| "how to be a winner" mindset now _everything_ gets posted.
| Mostly AI garneted slop with glitchy AI images that advertise
| just plain false information. No one corrects stuff and barley
| anyone actually clicks a link an a post - no one cares. Just
| mindless self _fap,fap,fap_ , like TikTok but for
| "professional" and business people
| fennec-posix wrote:
| I do feel Ramon's (blog poster's) pain.
|
| I'm so lucky that I'm at a place that I can see my direct manager
| actively protecting us from a lot of these things like random
| busywork and solutions for the hell of a solution. As a result we
| can get some really good work done and actually deliver on the
| large projects we're given in the roadmap on time.
|
| I just hope Ramon can find somewhere that respects his talent and
| his time and allow him to do his best work without the stress. I
| really wish that for everyone (although, no perfect world exists)
| mannanj wrote:
| I had faced something similar as Roman and am now building many
| things with these AI tools that I've always wanted. Never
| simultaneously felt more uncertain and hopeful, and wonder if I
| would do well to be my own boss. The challenge/learning now is
| getting it monetized.
| Havoc wrote:
| Why even read anything on linkedin at all?
|
| The highlights get reposted on
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Love that one.
|
| I can't help but notice that LI helped the author to get the
| job he's about to lose.
|
| I really feel bad for folks still in early career, nowadays. I
| am grateful to be retired.
|
| When I was first let go of my job, and ran into the SV ageism,
| it infuriated me, but I think that it may have actually been
| one of the best outcomes I could have hoped for.
| knallfrosch wrote:
| LinkedIn has always been as if HR and PR agreed on a post.
| munk-a wrote:
| I wish LinkedIn was that good. In my eyes LinkedIn has become
| "Facebook but with resumes" - I accept that I should have a
| profile on there for resume visibility but there are so many
| features built into that site that just should not exist and so
| many genuinely valuable things around job seeking they could do
| that they're simply not.
|
| It's an excellent example of a product that could be massively
| improved by just removing things - look back to early linkedIn
| days where their email notifications actually meant there was
| likely something relevant that you care about there. Now
| they've created a platform where the valuable is buried in
| piles of irrelevant slop.
| dependency_2x wrote:
| Yeah even on HN not everyone got to the real issue. It is not so
| obvious unless you have done SRE or like me just have to do
| oncall and have to do some SRE for your services. The obvious
| take is "there is a bug at line X" and especially with it being
| Rust the tempting lol Rust code is buggy it was meant to be safe.
| But code will have logical bugs so you need to know how to deal
| with that uncertainty in deployments.
|
| RE Linkedin - it's a good filter, see some BS post, add it to a
| list, then when you need a job and want to choose your boss, or
| when you want to hire someone, you have a filter :-). Maybe 3
| strikes to allow for an honest mistake or something that looks
| like AI but turns out it wasn't.
| tofflos wrote:
| I wasn't familiar with the PIP acronym so I asked $AI:
|
| > A PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) is a formal document a
| company uses when they believe an employee isn't meeting
| expectations. It's framed as "support," but depending on the
| environment, it can be anything from a genuine improvement tool
| to a pre-termination protocol.
| andy99 wrote:
| Is there some legitimate thing people are doing on LinkedIn that
| the crap is getting in the way of? One can make a profile and
| (thought it's terrible for this) search for jobs without ever
| scrolling the feed. If you don't like it just don't use it.
|
| It feels like complaining that the strip bar has alcohol and
| nudity everywhere, why are you there?
| munk-a wrote:
| I think it's more just a bizarre platform for us to gawk at.
| I'm not really certain why LinkedIn even has social features
| available if it's purporting to be a professional space and
| especially a professional space that is going to be your first
| impression for a new job prospect. Maybe having a loud profile
| is a positive to some sorts of recruiters but posting anything
| beside resume information on that site just seems like a
| guaranteed malus on future prospects. Even if you'd like to run
| a live blog on some project you're working on as a sort of
| portfolio - do it on a platform you have full control of in
| case you want to rescind it or modify it later.
| flatline wrote:
| > gawk at
|
| Exactly this, it's just another outgrowth of the attention
| economy, and I assume there is a payoff for many people or
| they would not be engaged with the platform. I assume part of
| that is purely for the attention, but part of it must be
| remunerative from a professional standpoint as well. The
| lines get blurry fast in influencer spaces. What is work,
| what is personal, what is even real, and how much does any of
| that matter as long as you are getting attention?
| brianjlogan wrote:
| Small business it actually can be a meaningful way to refer
| people digitally and make business connections.
|
| I think big business it's also a way of keeping in contact with
| former colleagues so that when you're interested in jumping to
| another company you can do it easily in one place.
|
| Otherwise it's a place for sales people to pump out garbage
| posts.
| renewiltord wrote:
| Haha, you're absolutely right. But the kind of thing he's
| complaining about is on HN too. "Why the Cloudflare outage
| should never have happened" and so on and so forth. Everyone
| has wisdom to share but somehow they're never equivalently
| successful.
|
| "As a third-year student in Computer Science at the University
| of Tzatziki, I would never use unwrap, I'd use expect, so then
| the error log that I skipped over would be accurate..."
| blahblahblah
| phkahler wrote:
| I only use LinkedIn when im looking for a job or information
| from people I know. Or asking good people if they're looking.
|
| Unfortunately I tend to miss people reaching out to me because
| I dont check it otherwise.
| mannanj wrote:
| I was also placed on a PIP and yeah man, corporate hell at these
| big companies is definitely a thing. They've drank all the kool
| aid about AI and the execs have been taking the $AI board stinks
| up the moon to push AI down your throats. Then they are using
| fear and lack of transparency on decisions to get people to
| compete while pretending to be positive-sum (note: it's zero-sum)
| these PIP and performance ranking stack cultures are so toxic.
| pram wrote:
| My LinkedIn feed has been unrelentingly depressing recently, more
| than anything. Every time I log in it's former coworkers posting
| about how they have been jobless for a year+ or posts like "I was
| diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer, goodbye!"
|
| IDK if the vapid LLM slop is worse than this pit of despair and
| misery, hard to say.
| hackerbeat wrote:
| LinkedIn needs to be burned to the ground.
| gnarlouse wrote:
| So delete your account. I just got hired. Can confirm LinkedIn
| is irrelevant if you have a reference.
| koakuma-chan wrote:
| "Your LinkedIn profile URL (required):"
| NoiseBert69 wrote:
| Just link to Reddit/r/LinkedinLunatics and lean back
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| HR is lazy.
|
| Do you want to work in a company where HR is lazy to even
| work?
| koakuma-chan wrote:
| Don't have the luxury to pick.
| elashri wrote:
| I only maintain a profile on LinkedIn because it is standard and
| expected. But I never open the website except when I get
| notification maybe on important message or to update significant
| part. I don't read posts or anything else. I even block the
| website on my AdGuard Home instance and added it to kagi seach
| blocked sites.
|
| I don't see any reason why would I try to engage with people
| there. And that's even before LLMs, they just made it much worse.
| koakuma-chan wrote:
| > How do these people stay motivated to do anything.
|
| I have no idea.
| mathgeek wrote:
| I really enjoy their daily games.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| For me LinkedIn is the employee/colleague phone book. And like
| every phone book, it's more ad filler each year.
| markoa wrote:
| The solution, as always, is doing more of what you want to see in
| the world. Maintain a personal blog and post more from the heart.
| blitzar wrote:
| > post more from the heart
|
| The linkedin cringe comes from this place.
| Kim_Bruning wrote:
| I hadn't used linkedin for over a year, so I recently deleted it.
| It used to be useful as a kind of phone book/rolodex; but they
| pivoted somewhere, and I'm not sure why I hadn't deleted it
| sooner.
| skybrian wrote:
| The author complains about duplication in social media. It's
| certainly not limited to LinkedIn.
|
| I wonder if part of the problem is that people don't see each
| other's posts and don't quite realize how repetitive they're
| being when they write them? You can't expect the same amount of
| coherence that you get in a small discussion where people
| actually read each other's posts.
|
| Alternative theory: perhaps they don't care?
| pedrolins wrote:
| > How do these people stay motivated to do anything. It can't
| just be money, right?
|
| It's making money to spend quality time with loved ones and pay
| the bills. For some people that's enough (no judgement).
| carimura wrote:
| i've always felt the social world order is as follows:
|
| Facebook/Insta: I'm cool!
|
| Twitter/X: I'm smart!
|
| LinkedIn: I'm successful!
|
| Tik Tok: (I have no idea)
|
| As long as you know this, it all makes more sense.
| kazinator wrote:
| [delayed]
| hekkle wrote:
| LinkedIn is hell. I had a redundancy about a year ago, and like
| the author tried using it to network and find another job. I
| swear half of the people on there are not copy/pasting from
| ChatGPT like the author speculates but are just straight up bots
| that use AI.
| SerCe wrote:
| The highest level of cringe you can feel is when you see people
| you know well in real life post on LinkedIn. The contrast between
| the way they speak in real life and on LinkedIn is often immense,
| you don't feel that level of contrast with random internet
| strangers.
| awesome_dude wrote:
| Almost every comment on here is from the point of view of a
| candidate/applicant.
|
| 1. LinkedIn is an advertising pipeline, for employers,
| recruiters, and candidates
|
| 2. The main feed is helpful if you want to see people virtue
| signalling (recruiters claiming that they _never_ ghost
| candidates)
|
| 3. The main feed is REALLY helpful to see what's happening on the
| other side of the fence (recruiters complaining about hiring
| managers ghosting/ripping them off)
|
| 4. The interactive part of the posts on the main feed is helpful
| for "correcting" poor assumptions (recruiters are often saying
| "Put X on your CV/Resume if you want to stand out" - which is
| good advice, except that candidates /don't/ put it on their
| resumes/CVs for a set of reasons that recruiters don't realise)
| webdevver wrote:
| idk i like linkedin. every week i get emails about jobs they
| think i might be interested in and its pretty on point. nice to
| have a centralized place for job advertisements. before that,
| youd have to go on each website individually which was a pain.
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