For those who find LinkedIn pointless are you making crazy bank already and find no need to raise your salary by using recruiters who offer you better jobs weekly on LInkedin? When they do it's time for you to say I make 100k more then you really do and boom you raised your salary a ton.
I don't get the hate though and again those that hate it I guess don't need to play the game? They already have maxed out their salary and or aren't in tech to make as much money as possible?
Or maybe they are the programmers who hate facebook and social networks in general; have no clue how to use Linkedin to their advantage?
I just don't like the idea of a business social network to be honest. If I get along with coworkers then I'll exchange numbers, email address etc and talk to them that way.
For job hunting, I prefer to do it on my own terms: linkedin has job postings I can view from a dummy account, then there's glassdoor, indeed etc. I don't do consulting/contract work so I tend to stick around companies for at least a year, the weekly job offers are just annoying to me. As is having to deal with connection requests from people I don't know or don't care about.
Salary wise I'm comfortable enough and not in tech to make as much money as possible, I just enjoy it: there's better fields for salary in the UK. I've doubled my salary in two years without linkedin anyway, it's not essential to have.
Then there's the whole security side of things. I want linkedin to die solely because it's such an easy source of OSINT information. I also do hate social networks in general, at least the implementation of them, for quite a few reasons.
What exactly does Linkedin offer me other than ego stroking which I can't do myself?
> For those who find LinkedIn pointless are you making crazy bank already and find no need to raise your salary by using recruiters who offer you better jobs weekly on LInkedin?
LinkedIn is useless even for me, and I'm not making crazy bank yet. I have given up on it completely. I just wanted to use it as a tool to keep in contact with some old mates of mine. However, I keep getting spammed by recruiters, despite me having explicitly stated I'm not currently looking for another job.
Furthermore: when I'm going to go and look for a new job, I'll avoid all recruiters like the plague. They're a bunch of parasites who'll be the first to go down when the bubble bursts. I've worked with quite a few of them, and nearly all of them were completely useless. Worse than useless, actually, with all the lies they told both me and potential employers.
> Or maybe they are the programmers who hate facebook and social networks in general; have no clue how to use Linkedin to their advantage?
Jesus christ. If you start projecting anymore, you should point yourself at a wall and start a Drive-In theatre.
So it sounds you are not a job hopper and are happy working for a company for many years. Cool and pardon for projecting/thinking that it should all about trying to make the most money one can in their field. It's not always about that especially if those you work with are great friends. Also and of course there is a downside to job hopping especially if you didn't line up your next job as I have been out of work for a few or more painful/concerning months.
> So it sounds you are not a job hopper and are happy working for a company for many years.
I tend work for a company until I can either learn no more there, the projects become too tedious or I get the feeling the company no longer cares for me properly. I feel I'm a bit too young and unexperienced (I was really lucky to land programming gigs given that I'm a biologist by education) to really start job hopping, given that you need to be fairly good at what you do in order to pull that off in the long term.
> Cool and pardon for projecting/thinking that it should all about trying to make the most money one can in their field. It's not always about that especially if those you work with are great friends.
Fair enough. I can understand why you would do so. I reacted a bit too aggressively, since I've too often seen good IT people being labelled clueless geeks for not playing the economic game.
I'm an employer. It even says "Managing Director" right there in my job title. Yet because I'm from a development background and have certain keywords on my profile I still get endless "offers" of contract work from recruiters who didn't even bother to read my info. I'm sorry but no amount of money is going to convince me to fold my business and go back into contracting.
Also this whole attitude strikes me as a little odd... If you managed to somehow blag your way into a job earning 100k more you're either a fool for accepting such an underpaid job in the first place or you're not going to last very long in your new position.
That is true, but I would assume if you match up to what they are looking for they will respond to you. Especially if you know and are skilled in the latest tech like Vue.js or React.
I don't get the hate though and again those that hate it I guess don't need to play the game? They already have maxed out their salary and or aren't in tech to make as much money as possible?
Or maybe they are the programmers who hate facebook and social networks in general; have no clue how to use Linkedin to their advantage?