[LordN00b]

Recently I came to the conclusion that I needed to change jobs, but I held off because I didn't want to deal with the psychotic ramblings of LinkedIn posters. I'm sure in real life they are all perfectly normal indiviuals but something about LinkedIn insists that every poorly worded fable is gateway to wisdom, that methaphorical socratic dialog is to mechanism to describe human behaviour, and starting every second post with 'I'm sure this is a contraversional opinion but hear me out...'

In the end I got fired, so I'm actually forced back into the LinkedIn maelstrom of mediocrity but against my will, and without even the grace of my own grim resignation to spur me in to action.

[bluGill]

Are you? Does anyone find a job with LinkedIn? They were sort of heading in that direction for a while, but don't seem to be anymore.

[SpaceNoodled]

It's the primary method for connecting with recruiters, and all the jobs I've had in the past fifteen years have been due to connections through LinkedIn.

It's not "social media" in the same vein as other platforms.

[wlonkly]

I almost feel like it's two things -- the recruiter interface that you mention, and separately a social network where people are posting about their professional, and even personal, achievements and adventures -- true or imagined -- completely separate from the recruiting part but sharing a brand and identity provider.

[gazby]

Depends where you are. LinkedIn is absolutely the only place to go for tech jobs in Australia for example.

[shaneofalltrad]

What alternative do you recommend?

[layer8]

You can use LinkedIn for job search and completely ignore the posters. There are relatively fine-grained settings of what to get notified about.

I’m not saying that LinkedIn is great, but the post feed is entirely optional.

[nikau]

> There are relatively fine-grained settings of what to get notified about.

Anecdotal, but it seems the mobile app resets those settings every so often so you start to get spammed with crap you don't want to read.

I eventually just blocked the linkedin app from sending any notifications and rely on the emails which I have filters on.