More reason to avoid them. I don't fault a company for needing to advertise, that's a given. But incessant constant barrages of your company name in unrelated spaces, certainly aren't the way to do it. Kind of like the same damn ads 3 times in a row on Pluto TV, or Spotify, etc.
On a related note does anyone happen to know how you can filter LinkedIn's job lists to exclude specific advertisers? The promoted entries already make the lists frustrating to use if you're seriously looking to make a move but then certain brands including Toptal seem to list dozens of generic roles at once that just get in the way. It's almost annoying enough to give up on LinkedIn entirely but every now and then something actually worthwhile does show up on those lists for me so I'd prefer to just reliably filter out the items that have no interest for me.
Absolutely. When people try to silence and sensor you, it's a sign they're threatened by what you have to say. And we've got nothing to fear as long as we speak the truth.
These are common scare tactics by large investor backed organizations, to try and make all possible competition disappear. They especially target small, bootstrapped businesses like ourselves that are more favored by entrepreneurs for their low-budget hiring requirements. And Toptal knows that we'll never be able to battle them out in courts. So they try to enforce fear to silence us.
It's not going to work this time. I won't be silenced.