I'm not clear why people who hate LinkedIn stay on it. If it is not useful to you, leave. If you want an account but hate the feed, don't read it.
I agree that it has problems. I've also gotten multiple jobs from it. But more importantly, it is my digital rolodex. I absolutely get back in contact with people from prior gigs and we talk, catch up, act as sounding boards for each other's ideas. That has value to me.
But it is just a web site. If you don't like it and it has no value to you, don't use it. Seems like a waste of energy to put this much effort into hating it.
Because for some areas, it's the table stakes for finding a job much less applying.
In some tech-adjacent sectors, the way you apply is through a thin wrapper around the linkedin API. Sure you can try manually entering the data but the API provides them Just Enough pre-sorted and classified data that it gets sold as "convenience"
codingdave · · focus · HN ↗
I agree that it has problems. I've also gotten multiple jobs from it. But more importantly, it is my digital rolodex. I absolutely get back in contact with people from prior gigs and we talk, catch up, act as sounding boards for each other's ideas. That has value to me.
But it is just a web site. If you don't like it and it has no value to you, don't use it. Seems like a waste of energy to put this much effort into hating it.
indrora · · focus · HN ↗
In some tech-adjacent sectors, the way you apply is through a thin wrapper around the linkedin API. Sure you can try manually entering the data but the API provides them Just Enough pre-sorted and classified data that it gets sold as "convenience"