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LinkedIn locked my account and wants me to do ID verification through Persona (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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I haven't tried to log into my account for a few weeks because LinkedIn is a cesspool. When I logged in just now (with a passkey, btw), it brought me to this page.

I've had this account for over a decade and used it to get my current position. I don't want to use LinkedIn, but it's pretty much a requirement in my industry.

I'm not sure if I should cave or what. I read the privacy policy for Persona's ID verification and it states that the data is immediately destroyed after verification, or held for three years.

This shit should be fucking illegal, and yet, in much of the world, it's being made enforced legislation. Fuck any company and politician that supports, funds, or operates this bullshit.

LinkedIn locked my account and wants me to do ID verification through Persona
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[–] 29 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Has anyone actually landed a good job on LinkedIn anyway?

In seriously asking. The last time I checked the app was full of low-ball offers, bots, and a lot of applications that the companoes completely ignore if you apply on LinkedIn.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes, plenty of people do. Unfortunately for me, the original promise of LinkedIn has been lost. Originally it was meant to help people maintain their professional network by not losing track of people they had worked with in the past. Over the years, it has turned into nothing more than a place for recruiters to fish in. It feels like a dating site for workers and recruiters to find each other.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I feel you. Unfortunately it still has the main purpose. Its really just that people treat it like a social media site. Im on it as a way to verify I worked places by my connections to people who also worked there and to get and giver references and basically to have an online resume. I do sorta like like the messaging as a way to put up a bit more of a bar to contact to me over spamming my email. One thing that kind of cracks me up but I put forward with ai is if it was so good it should theoretically make finding and filling positions almost automatic since it should be able to parse anyone who is actively looking for work.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Last year a company shot me a message and now I work there. It was excellent timing on their part, because I was very unhappy with my employer back then.

    I feel like LinkedIn has changed a lot since then, though. The platform is overrun with AI slop and I'm seriously thinking about deleting my account.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    A frustration of mine is that hr at my current company will not allow hiring of a candidate that doesn’t have a LinkedIn account. I’ve had to ask a couple people that wanted to work on my team to create LinkedIn accounts otherwise I wouldn’t be able to hire them.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    your current company sounds stupid.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    No argument from me. They gave me a credit card to purchase things my team needs and I recently had to get vice president approval to spend $40 on a single mode fiber cable. It’s not a small company either. It was like five levels of approval and took two weeks just to spend $40 out of the $15k of annual discretionary spend for fast turn break/fix requirements. I dread the day a hard drive or something fails that really actually needs replaced in a timely manner.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    LinkedIn got me into my current company about four years ago. I've snagged one or two interviews with it since then.

    In my experience, it's only really used by recruiters for Fortune 500 companies looking for specialists.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    It’s mostly spam these days and fake postings for ghost jobs, and then bots auto applying to those postings. I would say 5 percent or maybe 10 at most are legit. I have found a few jobs through there.

    However since ChatGPT became a thing they offer near minimum wage now for senior engineers in a lot of places, salaries are half at best of what they were in 2024.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well, I was offered the job of a lifetime - an aesthetician offered me a unique chance to be their downline sales member for Rodan and Fields.

    Given that you are seriously asking, the only things I have ever been offered on LinkedIn are MLM crap and people trying to sell me their investment products

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    For me it was super low paying positions for companies nobody has ever heard of. They use LinkedIn to get the word out about their position hiring recruiters. If only they didn't pay half of what I was worth by the time I started using LinkedIn.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I'd say yes, indirectly. It wasn't through LinkedIn's job search, but a college classmate of mine saw my LinkedIn post that my current contract was ending and messaged me on LinkedIn to come interview with his team.

    I ended up staying with that company for nearly 10 years. Good people, and while the client and tech stack could be frustrating, there was also room to be creative / innovative. I voluntarily left because I thought I had something better lined up.

    In another job I do think they had me do something on LinkedIn, but my point of contact actually found me on Reddit, answering programming questions and occasionally mentioning that I was unemployed. It was also a good job for a while, but I think the company let me go because I was about to get a benefits bump, though it might have been a minor clash with someone more senior regarding "genAI" outputs being introduced into the repository. They said it wasn't anything I did, and they offered positive recommendations, but it was still surprising.

    (If anyone is hiring, I am unemployed right now; DM me if you want a resume.)

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