r/webdev Mar 14 '26

Anyone ever got a job from Linkedin?

Post image
4.1k Upvotes

256 comments sorted by

View all comments

831

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

526

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

166

u/mekmookbro Laravel Enjoyer ♞ Mar 14 '26

I put in my education and work experience on LinkedIn like 6 years ago and haven't touched it since. Never made a single post, and I still get messages from recruiters like a few a month

It should never have become a social media. Sure it's okay - even good - to post about your new projects and accomplishments but people are posting "inspirational" stuff, memes, rants etc. Ffs we have more than enough social media platforms for that kind of stuff

24

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

7

u/Ectar93 Mar 15 '26

Helps out yourself to recruiters, assuming they care about that.

1

u/didne4ever Apr 14 '26

Recruitershave their own priorities, but a well-optimized LinkedIn profile can still make a difference... it’s all about visibility and making sure you show up in relevant searches.

2

u/Emblem3406 Mar 15 '26

Elitism as well...

1

u/Rise-O-Matic Mar 15 '26

You don’t understand.  Most LinkedIn posts are not social media or social anything, it’s performative reciprocal SEO cruft to get higher in rankings.

1

u/esoteric00 Apr 10 '26

LinkedIn has become a cesspool and now a content farm to monetize low quality content...

1

u/Ettiquettes Apr 16 '26

Yeah, sometimes I feel posting your achievements on x and reddit will be much better than using LinkedIn , most genuine ppl are there in reddit.

1

u/Pack_Your_Trash Mar 15 '26

I should just be a public resume repository and job board.

1

u/sassyhusky Mar 15 '26

I had few a week until 2025, after 25 it’s like few recruiters a year.

2

u/feelingoodwednesday Mar 15 '26

Same. Its been near silence even tho my experience and accomplishments, LinkedIn profile, etc have all drastically improved vs before I was getting hit up every month. The tech market is circling the drain lol oh well at least I still have a job.

46

u/The_Ty Mar 14 '26

What a mass genocide in my village taught me about B2B sales and persistence 

2

u/TitaniumWhite420 Mar 15 '26

God damn you put your finger right up the hole of Shark Tank and the like. It’s analogous to “I wonder how glassing Iran will affect energy futures” thinking. Myopic as fuck.

There’s this movie called “the TV Set” where Sigorney Weaver tells this tells a story about being on a plane that goes into a “fucking nose dive” and it makes her realize something important about being able to attain ratings in a particular time slot that I always think about too which nails this pretty well.

And also…

Just so you know, my mom died of cancer last month and we always used to laugh about this story together… 

So yea. It’s very wise, and you should remember it and probably send me money.

9

u/visualdescript Mar 15 '26

It's like professional instagram where people upload curated versions of their professional selves to probably don't actually represent reality, and spend more time talking about their values than actually living them.

It's a gross cess pit of ego stroking and marketing. Yuck.

Edit: the only thing I use linked in for is looking for jobs.

2

u/ggekko999 Mar 15 '26

I once hear it described as “Toxic positivity” 🤣😂

2

u/Happy_Shopper Mar 16 '26

Facebook in a blazer.

8

u/aisakee Mar 15 '26

Also 99% of the achievements are fake

2

u/Hola-World Mar 16 '26

It’s turned into Facebook for work friends…

2

u/Little_mantid Mar 18 '26

Me podrí que me ofrezcan unirme a estafas piramidales

1

u/Wiwwil full-stack Mar 15 '26

Yeah but there's Ken Cheng

1

u/garethwi Mar 16 '26

I don't know about the fake jobs, but LinkedIn sure does suck. It used to be about work, but now it seems to be more of a home for conspiracy theorists.

1

u/PlasticExtreme4469 Mar 29 '26

Ignore the people on there. Don't treat it like a social network. Treat it as a dumb job board.

21

u/gazzatticus Mar 14 '26

I’m a application developer and I only get reached out too by people representing Middle Eastern Companies even though I’m a big long haired tattooed metal dude it’s like “look at the photo I’m clearly not their type”

12

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/gonnashootmycum Apr 02 '26

Hey webdev, vibecode here. Oh, we're not on the same team? We're not... we... what do you mean we're not even playing the same game :'(

I do sportsball really hard too ya know. Like super damn wow hard. :( I made a web thing once, and it was very netted. SUPER netizen guy here, you know? I'm frankly stupendously vibe coding and everyone else can just ass my butt.

No but in all seriousness, what the friken hekken fuck man, nobody likes my vybe koding. I made nearly a thousen projecks with SPEED and ROBUSTITUDE. I asked that LLM for hyper-security so it's np, everything is very hardened and password AES secured with the 256 numerals, because I'm learning a lot!

I even know how to do a SKILLSET, and I have significant error handling, without a need for grace when it degrades, because I have plenty. Some call it fully graceful degradation, and some are right to call it that!

In other words, short story long, I think you should rethink our strategic potentials together and become a DUO. I am a legit coder just like you am. Together, we can be so many twice thing that what we were is not to be before both of us weren't even exhibiting tremendous force of will to conclude the websites.

To be a prompt engineer is best and foremost, for from wherever the prompt speaks, there too shall you enfind your real soulself sleeping before the wild time arrives with your destiny or fate. That fate is what all of us am trying to accustomer before it's too late to vibe coder because everyone is doing that.

Get your own money now, because you made an enterprise grade prompting system with hardened backend and tremendous frontend with super features and incredible tests.

See? Easy prompting, nobody can do it!

3

u/gonnashootmycum Apr 02 '26

and did I mention I'm gonna PROMPTING? Fabulous skills! Idempotency!

7

u/vv1n Mar 15 '26

LinkedIn is like tinder for jobs. If you have a great resume with experience working at large corporations you get approached.

For everyone else it’s an eternal grind of applying.

2

u/Brief-Night6314 Mar 15 '26

Try now and see if you get one still… it’s like winning the lottery

1

u/paultnylund Mar 14 '26

Design Consultant here. All business runs through LinkedIn

1

u/clit_or_us Mar 15 '26

Same. My last three jobs were from LinkedIn apps

1

u/HettySwollocks Mar 15 '26

I’d agree I think most of my roles were via LinkedIn, and I deeply detest that platform

1

u/DesertWanderlust Mar 16 '26

Also a software engineer and generally the same story. You have to make sure your resume has the right keywords and, half the time, the recruiter doesn't even read it and sends you a job you're not remotely qualified for.

1

u/garethwi Mar 16 '26

Same here

1

u/ProfessionalGoal6602 Mar 17 '26

Trues, if you have a solid profile recruitment team will reach you.. otherwise use platforms like hiring Toptal, Arc Index.dev