[lildata]

Just from a performance point of view, opening LinkedIn webpage is a traumatic experience. I've rarely seen something so slow & heavy. It's quite sad because LinkedIn gave birth to a lot of fantastic techs, such as Apache Kafka...

[jlokier]

The loading is heavy, though since lockdown I'm finding HN takes almost as long to load for me, which suggests they have been reasonably smart about parallel loading.

LinkedIn is also buggy in many areas too. Search is wild - search for the same thing twice and get completely different numbers of results. This is good to know, when a job search notification shows 5 results, it's not real. Just click the search button and get 100 the second time for the same search!

But the fact it's an SPA works really well I think. Clicking around within LinkedIn seems much faster than the initial load, and things like open message windows keep their state. I like that. You can still right-click just about everything that looks like it could be a link to open a new tab or save the link. So I think they've done a great job of SPA.

It's a shame it's so buggy that I have to reload it from time to time anyway. LinkedIn is probably the only company where I use a product with so many obvious low-hanging-fruit bugs I'd actually consider working there just for the satisfaction of fixing them.

[higeorge13]

And besides website performance, their recommender on news feed, jobs, similar profiles even their search is terrible. And while the news feed is probably heavily biased to influencers' posts (same as other social media platforms), I keep getting job recommendations for architect jobs just because i had a past job with "data architect" title.