That senior engineer dodged a bullet.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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Top post is satirical, mocking the bottom one
Although the first post is satire, I've had people non-ironically say similar to me about how important posting on LinkedIn is.
Why??? Isn't a good CV enough? Why do I need to turn into an influencer now?
Fuck am I supposed to post? I'm gonna start sharing random FOSS news from my RSS feeds, is that enough???
"if he isn't posting about how hard he's working, is he even working at all?" is obviously satire
The entire response is satire
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Can we put these people under a giant glass dome and seal them off from the rest of humanity?
Don’t worry—they’re all assigned to B ark.
He was stunned. Lol. These people... They are so far into the matrix, they cant see anything clearly anymore.
I could write a lot about this topic and these people but we all know already.
The first response is in a satirical vein to the second (immediate below) one. The hiring for complex ML model is a dead giveaway.
They should check LinkedIn before asking persons to come in for interviews if that's their requirement. Save everyone some time
That sounds entirely too efficient for middle management.
But then they wouldn't get a story to post about on LinkedIn.
Are these satire?
Top one is, bottom one not sure
Can't really ignore advice from a "director of demand generation".
That's a mouthful but I guess "director of convincing people to buy our shit products" is too on the nose.
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Idiots, absolute idiots
In defense of the lady, it was a marketing position, the guy parody example is an engineer, they're not the same.
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I've never had a LinkedIn and I deleted my Facebook and Instagram years ago. I actually think it's why I can't get a new job in my field. I'm currently employed, get good feedback from my supervisors and peers, have tons of experience, and have good working relationships with the people I deal with outside my company, but most networking in my field is all done on social media and most jobs are posted on Facebook. I've been looking for a new job for months and have applied at multiple places and followed up and heard crickets, and yet I know people with the same exact job who were fired for cause and had a job the next week. The only job openings I've even found are places that coworkers with social media pointed me to, because they saw posts that the companies are hiring. I'm starting to wonder if companies are looking me up on social media, not finding me, and throwing me in the reject pile. The last thing I want to do is rejoin the metaverse, but I'm starting to think I'm wrecking my career by avoiding it. It's so frustrating.
I have never posted anything on my LinkedIn account, I set up the account years ago when I believed it it would actually be beneficial, quickly realised it wouldn't be, and abandoned it.
I get recruiters chasing me all the time, everyone in the industry does.
That's not to say there are necessarily a lot of jobs, there may be, but the recruiters are so bad at their jobs that it's hard to tell. They're also trying to get me to move to another continent all the time. Why can't Saudi Arabia just use their own people, I don't get it.
...and then when you get there, they take your ID and passport. So odd. /s
I'm reasonably confident Saudi Arabia is not trying to human traffic 30+ software developers.
I am surprised that most of the jobs for your industry are on Facebook. I don't even know how to find job reqs on Facebook... I don't actually know how to post on LinkedIn either though. But most of the job reqs I see that are a decent fit are on LinkedIn, and I've heard of a lot of the new start-ups in my industry from LinkedIn. ... If you work in engineering for defense or space companies, I'd start with making a profile on LinkedIn.
My industry is weird (it's in my post history, so I'll just say it, it's EMS). A lot of ambulance companies don't have someone to actively maintain a website. They might have a website but it might be a year or two out of date. It's easier and cheaper for a supervisor to make a "we're hiring! Email me your info!" post on Facebook, especially when that's where everyone is anyway and that's how everyone else is doing it. It's a very informal and very odd industry.
We have to do so many hours of continuing education every year to maintain our certification and I have a co-worker who does the coolest trainings. I finally asked how he finds them because all I can ever find is the dryest, most boring classes. Of course the answer was Facebook. It's all on Facebook. If you want to get into a new specialty, if you want a fun training, if you want to connect with providers who aren't in your immediate circle, if you want to learn a new niche or find a company or a job across the country you need Facebook.
Had a career as a lawyer for over 20 years and not once I posted anything on LinkedIn! Are these real people or paid trolls?
They are wannabe paid folks, and scammers.
Gonna post my fucking furry yiff porn on LinkedIn
Less shameful than the CEOs who go on there and spam AI-generated "Thought Leadership" slop.
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When the CEOs were talking about inflation, I don't think that's what they had in mind LMAO
This is the third "Jesus Christ" I've said out loud and I've only been on Lemmy for three minutes.
First time?
They don't look at the .ml instances much I guess
My crew are the most sought after talent in our little niche of the tech world. To my knowledge, not a single one of us posts on LinkedIn. The people that actually do the work don't have time for bullshit and probably have multiple open offers to join other orgs at all times.
What a weird way to say your company is probably garbage
If I could not post on LinkedIn more strongly I would. Maybe I should start hacking into accounts to delete their posts
I have exactly one LinkedIn post I made recently after 12.5 years in my career as a software engineer. It was about supporting your local food banks during the government shutdown.
How many impressions did it get? Did it extend your professional network?
Did you also include a blurb about the shutdown being an opportunity for those affected to learn their new market segment to better develop their GTM strategy and increase their profitability? Or maybe you mentioned how you went to a food bank, but instead of handing out food you actually told the people in line about new ways for them to diversify their earnings potential and that by bringing a quarter over quarter increase in revenue they could be a sales driver that adds value to the team.
🤣, I dunno but my CEO visited my sister's LinkedIn(she's the director of a local food bank). I work for a really big company so kinda crazy my CEO saw my post and went to my sister's profile (I gave her a shout-out because I'm proud of what she does.)
That’s the real trick the lunatics don’t realize. If you post frequently it gets muted and added to the slop pile. If you almost never post social media (LinkedIn in this case) blasts that mother fucker far and wide in the hopes that it’ll give you a hit and have you coming back. I’m obviously in sales, which has a… well we make up like 95% of the LinkedIn lunatic posts. However for LinkedIn to be effective IMO it should have a farther reach. Rather than posting every few days like most of my colleagues I post like… once a quarter maybe. Usually just product announcements or talking about something I’m personally doing. Those posts do infinitely better than any of my cohorts slop posts. I really don’t get how they haven’t caught on, but sales isn’t known for having the highest IQ. 😅
I work/worked with a few executives I look up to, none of them use linkedin. They all have an account as they must, but that’s it. Talking about e.g., SVP, CEO, CTO leading hundreds or thousands of people.
I also know one that owns their own consulting firm, taking out a few millions of profit every year, they still have a picture from their previous job and never post, except job openings.
I absolutely despise current linkedin, it used to be a platform to connect with colleagues and apply to jobs. Now it’s just one of the N+1 social medias where the algorithm can show you content by narcisstic people you don’t care about. It Freaks me out^TM^ that somebody could look at this dumpster fire and not understand what is the problem with it.
it did let me find out who in my workplace is a nazi sympathizer, by allowing me to view who reposted pro-charlie-kirkk stuff
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Well, at least I have a spine and refuse to go with the flow. No Facebook, LinkedIn, Xitter or whatever that sewer is called these days and I'm just fine with that. Just a bit of Lemmy for some discussions and memes, but fuck having to share everything you do.
How does sharing my thoughts and strategies with people I am competing for jobs with give me an edge over them?
(I actually do advise my peers all the time but I want to know why these idiots think that)
Highly paid bullshit jobs are all about social perception in networks.
The point is to post something that makes it appear as if you're already ahead of the game, and to use as many buzz words as possible so that you will appear in searches, or someone remembers you knowing something about those words.
It does not matter if the "strategy" makes any sense at all. It's not like anyone reads it, or that anyone tries it out, or even if you know anything about it. All these posts with motivational and strategic wisdom are just "tags" for people trying to sell themselves.
The people involved in those games rely on each other to support this self-induced value. It's like "fake it till you make it", with the twist that they never actually do anything. When they fail, they'll hopefully have enough other people involved, so that they can only fail upwards.
director of demand generation
You just gotta love those LinkedIn idiots... I am a protein rotation specialist, also known as a burger flipper at McDonald's
The only difference between that example and this woman is that the guy at McDonald's is doing actual work with actual results where this director of demand generation is a job that is entirely made up and doesn't do shit.
Any company having a demand generation director is a huge red flag that should be avoided like the plague
This has got to be a quip from The Circle or something...
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