[dataviz1000]

> I found myself in one of the rare situations in which I was mindlessly doom-scrolling on LinkedIn

Yet, the biggest bullshittery, is every company that almost each of you work at requires a link to a LinkedIn account on every job application, not optional. It has become a form of social credit. LinkedIn isn't completely meaningless either. A huge portion of the posts are also propaganda. Finding a new job is tied to listening to propaganda.

[upupupandaway]

> A huge portion of the posts are also propaganda. Finding a new job is tied to listening to propaganda.

I am 100% convinced that a significant number of job posts on LinkedIn are entirely fake and either 1) a way to farm resumes and contact details for sales 2) propaganda to make a company appear to be hiring more than it is.

Positions from companies like Andiamo, Jobgether, etc. are most likely #1 above, while Adyen, Affirm, Airwallex are the latter.

In fact I build a prototype classifier of job listings to separate true opportunities from bullshit posts, but I am too scared to publish it and get sued to oblivion.

[dataviz1000]

I automated all the major job boards last week. I thought about creating large quantities of fake resumes with different permutations like education at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, University of Florida, ect to see where the limits of the AI filtering are. It's a nothing burger to send out 10,000 or 20,000 resumes. Figured out that I can do a fanout with AWS Lambda to bypass rate limiting with rotating IP address.

If I get desperate, I might find the the cut off for 200 - 300 companies and try to honestly get my resume into those parameters. At this time, it is below me to do that.

[Aurornis]

Having a LinkedIn profile and doomscrolling the LinkedIn feed are two entirely separate activities.

Most people create a profile and update it when they're job searching, but they don't visit LinkedIn or interact with the feed at all.

[dataviz1000]

I'm getting old.

I miss the good ol' days when they would look at my resume, call the places to make sure I worked there, and invite me in to prove I know the skills that I put on my resume.

[Aurornis]

You can apply to a job without a LinkedIn if you want. You don't need a LinkedIn profile. I still get resumes without one.

The benefit of a LinkedIn profile is that I have something I can easily share around to teams or other hiring managers that provides an easy overview of the person in a format they're familiar with.

[dataviz1000]

> an easy overview of the person in a format they're familiar with

The job websites are requiring a linkedin profile in order to submit an application. I had one interview and the guy sounded like a linkedin stream. So I thought about updating mine. I was immediately hit with political propaganda. From the point of view of an established company, it is a test that the person is willing to conform to social standards. It is the modern equivalent of wearing a tie to an interview.

[throwup9]

> requires a link to a LinkedIn account on every job application, not optional. Finding a new job is tied to listening to propaganda.

Let's be clear, what this really means is that if you enjoy survival, you are forced into directly supporting the Epstein class. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/how-jeffr...

The linked in bullshitters aren't having fun, they don't actually think any of this is real, they might even prefer real work to grifting. People in charge of hiring and interviewing don't want this. The coercion is in the network really.. but everyone must become complicit.