Don’t do click bait post. In case you’ve genuine insights observation/ learnings/ deep knowledge on a certain topic to share with your network then you can try posting. 

Speaking from experience, even when my post did good (50k views a month) I didn’t get too many inbound request from recruiters.

Product Owner

lmfao no, don't waste your time on LinkedIn

Software Engineer

Do posting consistently on LinkedIn to get likes, comments, and shares and more followers and connections help in getting more opportunities, especially for freshers?  I have observed a few fresher...

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Do posting consistently on LinkedIn to get likes, comments, and shares and more followers and connections help in getting more opportunities, especially for freshers?

I have observed a few freshers and many professionals nearly posting daily on LinkedIn. They post primarily their personal opinions and anything different they do in their professional life, such as certifications, their own articles, something new they tried, visits, and even (mainly women) adding their workplace photos with even irrelevant posts.

I have no problem with anything they do, but I want to know if it helps build one's career.

Does popularity on LinkedIn matter especially for freshers?

Civil Engineer

Does popularity on LinkedIn matter especially for freshers?- Grapevine

To all the folks 1-2 years out of college and listing 10+ experiences on their LinkedIn profile, Does it help in anyway?

Product Manager

As the caption says, I am keen to explore if there are any examples of real life benefits of LinkedIn activity. I am afraid to fall in cringe-bucket, at the same time get FoMo of remaining invisible to corporate pigs. 

Any thoughts? ( just like LinkedIn style;) ) 

P.S. - my latest LinkedIn activity stat : 1 hiring post in last 6 months.

LinkedIn activity & real life benefits?

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Is posting on Linkedin helped you? Do you feel it makes friends feel competitive with you as you post your achievements? Does anyone feel posting about your achiements bring you 'Buri Nazar'  (Evil eye)?

Does posting on Linkedin about certification, achievement, helps?

Data Analyst

Why do female founders and other budding LinkedIn female influencers post their personal pictures(gym photos, selfies, random photos of themselves) on LinkedIn? It’s a professional platform for fucks sake. 

You don’t post these photos on Leap Club but LinkedIn is okay because validation. 

And nobody calls them out. Men are lost in simp behaviour and others ignore them.

Personal photos on LinkedIn

"Don't judge anyone by years of experience. Judge them by their skills."

Okay, but recruiters will judge them by gender as well. Aur aapne to dono bhi (i don't consider LGTV) mention kiye hai.

And what is this new trend of ~gaslighting?

How good is this written?

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Hello I'm 22F a 4th year student from a tier 3 college. I got placed on campus in a very small scale startup for 6.5 lpa but the internship period was of 9 months at 15k per month in blr. Now they have announced that they won't be giving PPO to us. My internship is ending in March 2024 before that I need to get into a new job. But all the openings are low paying i.e. 3 or 4lpa jobs and I'm in doubt with my DSA skills. I need someone who can mentor me on this path. I've worked on mostly Java, Springboot, Automation testing and C++. 
How should I prepare along with my internship in this 2 months?

In need of Guidance

I must have applied for dozens of jobs on LinkedIn job portal. At times companies don't reply or I mostly get automated rejection emails. 
PS - I'm someone with more than a decade and a half experience. So my target roles are a little senior.

Has anyone found a job via LinkedIn?

Solution Architect

Recently I have joined a seemingly good company. Since a while, I have witnessed a surge of linkedin request and I have accepted all of them, I even referred everyone who asked, gave them tips on their resume also and responded properly to everyone's query.
However, lately I have witnessed that many linkedin connections are sort of from less known companies or freshers. The thing is even I want to move ahead further and thus want to connect with people at a better position than me, but as recently many of my connections have been fresher or from lesser known companies thus my mutual connections and suggestion have been also like same.
I have been thinking of removing some of my recent connections, basically those who just sent request and since then have not pinged related to anything referral etc. I am unable to decide if I am a ad person for doing so.
Basically I would be myself doing what they have done, so I am feeling a bit guilty if I do so, but on the other hand I also think that I have not rejected anyone's request till now and even I future won't do so, I just don't want to fill my connection with people who are just randomly sending request to everyone.

Please help me..

Am I  a bad person if I remove those LinkedIn connections who are not from very famous companies and also just seems to increase their connection list

Software Developer

So, I finally landed an offer with a product company as an SDE after months of struggle as a fresher. 

I hail from a circuital branch of the old IITs. Campus placements were difficult this year, so while I did interview at some good product companies (Microsoft, Amex, etc.), luck didn't favour me and I had tsettle up with a trading role with a low pay. (Other story why I decided to apply here in the first place)

Most of the news articles floating around fucked up placements at IITs are in fact true and I decided to try my hands at off-campus placements only to realise how difficult it is to get even your profile noticed (yes, even with a tier-1 college). 

So this is what I did which I believe can help freshers land a job in this difficult market:

1) Simply applying on LinkedIn esp. via easy apply won't work. There's literally thousands of applicants within a day for a job posting. So try to stand out among the crowd. 

2) Draft an excellent resume. Add things that you believe you can explain to the interviewer (doesn't matter if you've worked a lot on it, the interview is just an hour of you trying to make the interviewer believe the guy knows his stuff).

3) Know your strengths- are you good at DSA or are you good at dev. Startups would demand dev skills majorly, product companies would require DSA knowledge.

4) Start reaching out to people - very senior level people, HRs, Hiring Managers, people directly in touch with Hiring Managers, etc. Dm them on LinkedIn, cold email, and keep following up. In the case of early stage startups, directly reach out to the CTO/CEO. Sometimes, the jobs just don't get posted publicly. 

5) Don't lose hope. I've had days when I used to get a headache thinking of the future and days when I had multiple interviews on the same day. The market is just tough, you're good enough and things might take time, but you'll definitely make it through. 

I got interviews at a couple of HFTs, and a few good product companies and got an offer.

Finally landed an offer

Most of the people just keep adding so many irrelevant pictures to their posts!! I mean what do they get out of it. If it’s anything to do with regards to the picture, I understand. Other than that, it has become a trend to add photos to the posts. They say they will have greater reach and greater views. It’s so annoying. I don’t understand the difference between Instagram and LinkedIn. Most of the time I feel Instagram is better than LinkedIn. All these so called entrepreneurs have also started doing this shit and feels 😖😣

LinkedIn pe rant!

Market Research

hey folks, I am looking to gain more followers on LinkedIn. I currently have 5k followers. any suggestions and idea?

PS : pls dont ask why I need followers and its all materialistic and shit + i need it to create a personal brand and want to give content creation a shot

PPS : I have worked in VC for past 2 years and planning to post content regarding startup, funding, vc etc etc

need suggestions for posts

Hi Folks
I recently got an offer and the notice period over there is 60 days. In my past companies it was 30 days everywhere. Just wanted to know your opinion.

Is the 60 days notice period too much?

Mine is 90  
 I feel like drowning in Harpic

Data engineer

Just an amusing observation. I see someone I haven't seen at all post on LinkedIn and they'll be active for a few days, announce a job change and immediately go back to hibernation!

I, myself, am guilty of it! While I try to be active on LinkedIn regardless, I do see a spike in my activity when actively soliciting a new client as opposed to when I'm comfortable with one :D

How secure a person feels in their job is inversely proportional to how active they are on LinkedIn!

Lawyer

I know the market is a bit dull these days for senior engineers. 
Still some folks are getting jobs successfully. So reaching out to the Community here  to know what worked for everyone ? 

For example
- Reaching out to Recruiters on LinkedIn 
- Reaching out to Hiring Managers 
- Getting referrals 
etc..
 
Please enlighten me with your insights ✌️

How to get hired as a Senior Software Engineer?

Hi folks, thinking of writing a regular mini blog here about my learnings being a generalist in the ecosystem.
I currently handle growth at an ecom startup and have previously been through 2-3 startups + a large corporate in my 7 year career.

#1: Why you should not stay only in startups

Recently started reflecting on salaries of many peers who are also startup folks and trying to see where it stands.
There are 3 cohorts:
a. People who started out in Big 4/Corporate & then became a generalist: They've been underpaid the most. First pay was 4-5L, and when they transitioned to startups, started at 7-9L. Over time, growing from there is difficult without MBA.

b. People who have forever been in startups: They earn more than A on average. But here too, there is a delta in their salaries vs. people with same YoE who went to an MBA and are in corporate now. Side note: I've seen this cohort has usually loved what they've done, and being in startups definitely has positively impacted their thought process.

c. People who went to a corporate/big tech etc. mid way: This cohort has done the best long term. Their pay got recalibrated when they went to a larger company in the middle through their career, and when they rejoined startups, they were respected more in salary negotiation.

This is to anybody out there who is a generalist and sees a similar path. Try to sandwich a proper, large company in your career. It gives you perspective on whether you like it and if startups is really your preferred route. And it also recalibrates your pay.

Startups will limit you basis your last salary. Corporates have standards basis bands. Just something to think over.

NOTE: Do share feedback, if this makes sense. And if you'd like to read more of these too.

The Generalist - #1: Why you should not stay only in startups

Not only compensation, corporates help you to learn saying “NO” to not-related tasks. I see young startup folks in the name of “learning” are forced to do anything and everything. In my first startup role, I was handling the responsibilities of a PM + ops, which burnt me like anything without any significant skills gain. Corporate taught me delegation, saying “No” to things which aren’t part of your team.

Corporate Strategist

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I have been seeing people complaining how referrals,carrer portals,emails,linkedin etc ,none of these are helping them get shortlisted or get an offer.

So for people(or their friends)whose organization are hiring or did hire people, which route is being taken.

Though I want to know in context of freshers but I think any experience level will be nice as it will help other people too.

Thank you.

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I get the idea of marketing yourself is the key factor here but do you think over all that just degrades the quality of content and makes a bad platform as any other ?

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