This LinkedIn bloke, a parrot repeating others' tales. Misleading the crowd, a classic case of blind leading the blind.

Robotics Engineer

Some people do anything to get traction on LinkedIn these days. 
  
 Now coming to the people who ask him how he got the opportunity, etc. 
  
 I have seen people commenting how can they apply and/or interested in the posts by jobseekers; so people aren't reading it properly and just going out there to comment.

Software Test - QA

Well, LinkedIn is a circus and everyone's juggling. Some juggle their own balls, some others'. What's your juggling act?

Product Manager

Funny part is people ask him how he got the opportunity, what was the level of ques, etc😭

This guy over LinkedIn, posts someone elses interview experiences

Software Developer

This guy over LinkedIn, posts someone elses interview experiences- Grapevine

Linkedin has become  a place where people post about cracking tech interviews without any tech discussion. Every guy with or without MAANG gives guidance to clear interviews but none of them posts a single stuff about the tech itself.
Cracking tech interviews in India has become hype like JEE.

Interview Cringe on Linkedin

Software Engineer

Okay, so this happened to me last year. I was approached by a college alumni (got my number from college alumni group) who told me he had a side business going on which was leading him to earn more money than his corporate job and that he was going to leave the corporate for his “business”.

I was initially not interested but he was insistent and also I was looking to explore some options (may be my naïveté) that I asked him more and so he setup a call with his senior to explain more about this “business”.

Now this senior gave all sorts of gyaan regarding how to reach financial independence and picking up on the general mindset of how to make more money. They asked to create a list of 10 things that I desired the most at the point of time which could be solved with more money. I complied thinking it was a good exercise (again, I was a big fool). Now I was connected with another senior who gave all sorts of gyaan regarding how I could make more money and lead to financial independence.

Please note, during all this time I was constantly asking what the business idea was and how it would be achieved but got no response on the details and only white washing regarding how I should be prepared to do anything to achieve my dreams.

Now, it was revealed that I would need to put in 5L as investment to get bigger returns. Since I did not have that money in handy, I was suggested to get a personal loan through their agents. Also not to inform this to parents because they won’t understand this stuff and get “worried”. Luckily I did went with their suggestion and informed my parent about it. Thinking it was a startup idea, I got the investment from my father through an OD in my name.

Now we get onto a call two days later, where they reveal the company QNet and makes me purchase 5L of stuff from their website and explained the business model which was to get other people from your knowing to buy products from this company and get commissions on the sale.

Continued……

Pyramid scheme scam

Bruh... what even?! It's a well known scam. I don't understand how you were ready to put in 5L of your money without going for a simple google search.  
  
 All these IIT/NIT/IIM/AIIMS means they cracked a certain exam. It has nothing to do with guaranteed moral values or even basic common sense. Lesson learnt the hard way I guess.

Supply Chain Manager

Why does this guy always talk about interview experiences and why does he have 250k+ followers?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/parassaini

Why does this guy always talk about his Interview experiences?

‘God damn it, an entire generation solving leetcode, mugging up system design - slaves with white collars. These influencers have us chasing FAANG, working jobs we have so that we can impress people we don’t like. We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.’

Founder

Hello Guys,

I have an interview with Zomato tomorrow for Analytics intern role.

Any Zomans here who can give me tips to prepare well for the interview?

Interview with Zomato Tomorrow

Equity Research

Note - Not working for competitor company

In this situation where a employer can hire and fire anyone anytime, why “moonlighting” or working part time, having a business, doing something of your own should be problem?

If a employer can dump their employees anytime then they have to look for themselves, they have life, expenses, dependencies.

This is a high time companies change their points on this in appointment letters and contracts.

What do you guys think?

Why one shouldn’t work outside there company?

You can mention your top 3-5 priorities that you plan to do after joining the new job to be not in the same position of getting laid off

If you plan to join a new company after the current layoffs, what do you prioritise the most?

Analyst

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

Welcome to NEW LinkedIn, where professionals go to get distracted
- Because nothing says "professional networking" like knowing that out of my 30K connections, 48 have played Queens in the last hour. Exactly the vital information I needed today. And it's so comforting to know my boss not only sucks at setting my KPIs but also sucks at LUDO (oh wait.. they dont have LUDO, but you get the point). Say Yes to LinkedIn Games : because what better way to showcase your professional skills than competing in virtual board games. Maybe next we’ll have a LinkedIn Queens Champion title to boost your profile visibility and job hunt next?
- AI Post Ideas – Original thoughts? Nah, let the algorithm tell me what to think. Can’t wait for the ‘Inspirational Monday Motivation’ template. Because originality is overrated, right?
- LinkedIn Shorts – because TikTok isn’t enough. Now I can document getting laid off in 30-second clips. ‘Watch me scream at my boss in high definition!’ And the best part? When the boss yells at an employee, we can record that too! Coming soon: "Live from the pantry" and "Breakout room drama" LiEmploymentTV is the new reality TV 

What are the new features in pipe: Kundli and Tarot? 
- LinkedIn Horoscopes: Today’s forecast: Your connection requests will be ignored. Better luck tomorrow!
- LinkedIn Tarot Readings: The cards say stop pretending to enjoy team-building exercises
- LinkedIn Karaoke: Here's a hip hop base track to sing your resignation letter
- LinkedIn Pet Profiles: Cause your cat deserves a professional network too
- LinkedIn Cooking Shows: Cause you are more than your current role
- LinkedIn Meditation Sessions: Your mind needs it own Calm
- LinkedIn Matchmaking: We solved for the jobs, now lets help you find love with someone equally networked

Meta shutting down workplace really dint teach you anything???
To the PMs at LinkedIn – Thanks for teaching us - What not to do when and how.

Remember when LinkedIn was the place to get work done?

LinkedIn is not the same what it was an year ago, these days it's mostly filled with useless crap and so called influencers sharing their fake interview experiences just to sponsor someone who paid good amount of money

Data engineer

Human Resource

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Ranting. Just read a post about how a super-human struggled with the interviews and finally got an offer from Bigtech.  That super-human wrote a whole damn essay on it and received 30000 likes.  

I knew it would upset me if I read the whole thing but they did it anyway. Now, I’m depressed.  I have removed all 14 of my connections who liked and commented on this post. Any other workaround to cure my depression?

The cringe post on LinkedIn about getting a job at Bigtech

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Peeps who got a job through LinkedIn, post 2021, with 0-2 yoe, how??? Sahre experiences

LinkedIn Jobs

While I got interview call from same company 😌

Asked referral from a guy and this is his reply

17 yr old LinkedIn branding coach sprinkling job search gyaan without having one 🥲🥲🥲

Savage LinkedIn post

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Quick background: A seniorish middle management guy here

Got the last 2 jobs via my network, didn't apply for it. 

Some lessons learnt:
1. Get into that high iq, mafia type companies, where the bar is really high 
2. If you end up doing good then you'll get calls from your circles to work on something exciting
3. Lastly, work on your personal branding, write that blog down, tell how you did it, it should attract niche audience in your circle

Good luck 🤞🏻

I like this hot take

Yep, my last two jobs were 
 - inbound from a hiring manager who read some medium posts 
 - direct referral from ex colleague at a company from 4 years back

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

Finally got a job (here's the do's and dont's)

Part 3 
  
 - Add HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn, send them free ideas and strategies. Its ok if they steal them it meant they were great. One of them will refer you, remember you or hire you. 
 - Have a CV and a summary (half a page) that gets people excited about wanting to read the CV. Only areas of expertise and bullet points for results  
 - Don't put the OpentoWork filter on your LinkedIn DP. Its radioactive. I know people actively avoid those profiles. But make sure to keep open to work beacon on for recruiters. It pushes you ahead  
 - Dont post low effort i need a job because im laid off, i dont have money, copy pasted by millions on Linkedin. If you're gonna publically ask for a job, make sure that post has enuff of your skillset screaming for a potential hirer to want to explore more. Else you'll get velle gadhe typing CFBR 
 - Dont be anal or choosy about interviewing, i literally gave 35-50 in 3 months that culminated in 4 offers. Each one taught me something, heck ive spoken to startups with 7 peeps in it  
 - The only one that can negotiate CTC is the one that can walk away. When the offer i wanted finally came, my fixed went down a tad, but variable increased. The role was worth it so i didnt bother negotiating. Places i wasnt excited about - oh i quoted 30% hikes and got it at one place :p

Brand Marketing Manager

Education: CS from Tier 4
Years of Experience: 2+ FTE
Prior Experience: Service based
Date of the Offer: Between Feb to Apr 2024
Previous CTC: 7L + 1L bonus

Alphasense:
CTC: 22L + 60 units stock ESOPs
Position: SE 2
It's a great product. Well funded. $2.5B valuation. IPO within couple of years.
Work and tech stack aligns well with my aspirations.

Oracle:
CTC: 18.6L + 3.6L towards relocation
Position: Applications Engineer
Team: Fusion HCM
It's ADF tech stack which is an outdated tool/wrapper, which is a con for me.

Lowe's:
CTC: 16L + variable from 0% to 200% of 1.6L
Position: Software Engineer
Team: Product Promotions
Work, tech stack, Wlb is good.

Freecharge:
CTC: 14L
Position: Senior SDE

Offers are in chronological order- first one is the latest.
Please help me decide.
My priority is learning. And then my profile value for future opportunities.

Offer evaluation | Oracle | Alphasense | Lowe's | Freecharge | from Service based | Advice Needed

My friend who has less than a year of experience, has been searching for jobs for almost a year now. And the market has been, as from my observation, favorable to those with atleast 1.5 YoE. So, he's only got 1-2 interview opportunities till now.

Today, idk what amazing luck shined on him, he got an opportunity to interview at a pretty good company. But since he's kinda nervous about loosing this opportunity if they are expecting more for a junior role, he's thinking of approaching the interviewer on LinkedIn or somewhere and request them to not got hard and keep it simple as he's really in need of this job to take care of his financial crisis as the only breadwinner in the family. 

But I felt that it might backfire if the interviewer fails to understand and goes chaos. He's asking me whether to do it or not. I don't really have any experience in this. So, I'm asking you all amazing folks here. What should he do ?

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