Laid-off California tech workers are sick to death of LinkedIn | Hacker News Reader

Laid-off California tech workers are sick to death of LinkedIn

sfgate.com

28 pointsgreenchair9 comments

LinkedIn is overrated. I basically just have my resume on there. The feed is beyond useless.

I’ve not been laid off but I deleted the app because of how much like Facebook it’s become. I still have my account though.

LinkedIn was pretty useful 15 years ago.

Curious why someone else can't just make a new LinkedIn...

Profiles, connections, endorsements, recommendations, and a job board. Simple messages between connections.

Is the value that LinkedIn hit some sort of critical mass that can't be challenged now?

Frankly with all the spam, and all the low-value crap, and all the really fucking weird posts about people bragging about loving their jobs, or wanting to say they get up at 3:30 AM to run a daily marathon before breakfast, or just flat out treating their jobs like cults... it's all such trash content. Seems like if someone were to open an alternative that it wouldn't be too hard to fill it with bodies.

Is Indeed any better? They're just a job board, right?

Honestly, if you just block or ignore the feed, the other features - profile, social graph, messages, job postings - are basically fine. My biggest complaints on the job seeking side are the mediocre recommendation system and the lack of high quality level and compensation data for roles (like levels.fyi has); on the hiring side, a good recommender would also be helpful, as would better filtering tools. But if you want to replace LinkedIn as the primary sourcing tool for many roles, solving those problems is the easy part - the hard part, like you said, is building up a two-sided network at anywhere LinkedIn's scale.

Would you sign up, make a profile, and respond to messages on a new LinkedIn alternative that has no first-party job listings and no recruiters for companies you'd want to work for? Most people's answer seems to be no, based on all of the failed LinkedIn competitors that have been tried over the years.

Fwiw our job board allows filtering by compensation: https://levels.fyi/jobs

LinkedIn claims it has "1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide". You can build a similar platform, but you cannot get the network effect of one billion people that easily.

The network effect is gone since some time.

Now only the flowing crap remains.

I miss Jared’s Reid Hoffman’s quotes.

Not just in California.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com