Linkedin Corporation

LinkedIn provides an indispensable channel for professional communications — in much the same way Facebook’s niche is personal or Twitter brings celebrities and other important public figures to the layperson — so LinkedIn will stay for the young professional or established manager.
PROS
+ A social network with *useful* information. Even though many people just use LinkedIn to look for jobs, it is a great resource to connect with like-​minded professionals and publish original, engaging content.
The blogging tools integrated into the platform via Pulse make it easy to post and read stuff you’re interested in – many influential leaders in tech contribute to the wide pool of LinkedIn resources, from Richard Branson to Bill Gates.
LinkedIn is probably one of my favorite web readers (next to Reddit, of course).
+ The LinkedIn profile gives you a neat, organized space to discuss your projects, skills and expertise (a fun little voting system comes into play here). While their value to recruiters is debatable, recommendations are a nice personal addition for people to post their positive feedback for a potential candidate.
+ Jeff Weiner has been voted Best CEO for several years already by his employees. In 2014, Glassdoor gave him a 100% (
). His vision is about «Expanding the world’s collective wisdom and compassion.»
(
) Great upstanding guy.
+ You can use LinkedIn to create company pages to reach out to business professionals around the world and leverage the power of your brand.
+ Over the past few months the LinkedIn profile has been looking better and better, with a nice wide cover photo and better design and presentation for project and roles. I really liked how LinkedIn looks now! (it even accommodates video)
Getting the multimedia aspect right will be crucial for people looking to build creative portfolios — definitely feeling it here.
+ You don’t necessarily need to know somebody to add them on LinkedIn, especially if you use introductions and by explaining why you would like to connect through a mutual friend. The less strict barrier to entry helps promote a lot of good networking — the e-​mail limitation is a good way to make sure these connections are actually genuine and meaningful.
+ When it suited my budget, Premium was great to have. InMail lets you connect with recruiters (though you are limited x number depending on how much you pay). You also get some pretty cool insight if you’re applying to jobs — like what percentile qualified you are than other candidates.
CONS
— Sometimes people just add connections without knowing them, so introducing them to others is pretty pointless. Even though I’ve paid for InMails and put some thought into it, there has been a 25% response rate (luckily LinkedIn gave one or two back to me past a given time period).
— I have yet to land a job on LinkedIn. I’ve had most luck through Facebook and more personal introductions.
— Lots of e-​mail spam I’ve had to go through and disable.
A+ A very practical social network that has provided me a lot of professional insight and networking opportunities. Excited to watch it grow.

I thought this would be a great company to work for so I applied for several jobs at LinkedIn and was met with absolutely no reply. Their employees are arrogant and elitist. When I went to visit their campus to personally drop off my resume, the receptionist threatened to call security since I wasn’t invited and didn’t have a badge. Really? Is that how you treat someone who wishes to part of your culture and wants to help with you business? I felt extremely unwelcome and I won’t be utilizing their services anymore.

LinkedIn has been a decent website for maintaining business contacts and promoting company activity. I think they need to take some notes from Facebook and Twitter about their user interface.
I received an email that offered $ 50 in free advertising. When I attempted to redeem the digital coupon I was told to enter my credit card info and get charged $ 5. I don’t want my credit card info going onto another website, so I contacted their support team. They told me the terms and the conditions section of the promotional email indicated a credit card was required. However, there were no terms and conditions mentioned in the email, nor was there a link to any terms and conditions. When I tried to explain this to them I found the ticket was closed and I wasn’t able to respond to their email. Their help support needs help themselves.

Each time I open my invites, I find myself asking these questions, in no particular order:
WHO are these people?
Who ARE these people?
Who are THESE people?
Who are these PEOPLE?
I just close the browser; my queue of invites remains dormant.
LinkedIn is even less relevant to me than Facebook. The only social network I look at less than LinkedIn is Google+. But I think that goes without saying.

Love: Hate.
I have for a very long time loved LinkedIn. It has provided me a great way to keep my friends and business colleagues close and my enemies closer.
I really appreciate being able to scout people out before a meeting, post a job, hire qualified professionals and all the many other attributes we can assign to LinkedIn.
However, this gamification through recommendations is driving me absolutely stark raving mad.
Each and every day I’m being offered recommendations for this skill or that skill by people with whom I have not worked in 10, 15 or even 20+ years. And all of this is accompanied with the expectation that I’ll drop everything that I’m doing and immediately endorse the good do’er in return.
Hell’s teeth, they may well be writing me from prison. They could be hold up in their bedroom where they’ve spent the last 20 years of their agoraphobic life eating potted meat and drinking reclaimed water.
I have for a very long time loved LinkedIn. I am more recently growing rather annoyed with LinkedIn’s little gamification concept gone mad that is inviting behavior that approximates dogs humping the legs of their masters.
LinkedIn, please give me a button that will allow me to sit this particular silliness out versus having it shoved in my face each and every time I login to my account, open my email.
Your credibility is diminishing with each and every hump on my leg.

This is the first online review that I have written, but I am so angry I cannot stay quiet.
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT sign up for the premium service… you will NEVER be able to cancel!
If you call their phone number, the recording says «Because we are an internet company, we do ask that all inquiries be submitted via the help center, which can be found on your profile…» It does state that if you are unable to do this, you can leave a message… that they NEVER REPLY TO!!!
I have left messages, sent emails, gone through the cryptic website and found the section to cancel the premium service… but the they… STILL… CONTINUE… TO … CHARGE… MY … BANK… ACCOUNT… $ 99 … EVERY … MONTH
Terrible terrible business practices
I wish I could give 0 stars

Positive: The site is a great resource for locating qualified points of contact in my sales position.
Negative: Their customer service is only assessible via email. I emailed yesterday after lunch and still have not heard back. I called their phone # and reached an automated response that WILL NOT let you speak with a live person. I deducted 2 stars for their lack of customer service.

I would give less than 1 star in my rating but it’s the lowest available option.
I continually get email’s from LinkedIn that I’ve been endorsed. Some from people I know and some from people I’ve never heard of before. When I log in to read the endorsement nothing is there. Since I have not solicited any endorsements I believe they are bogus.
I’ve complained to LinkedIn to no avail. I just get a standard response that I can ask for endorsements or that I can write an endorsement. I suspect they have been hacked or have a serious flaw in their software.

Well, nothing new to report. I’d like to say that LinkedIn has THE WORST service ever, but they don’t have ANY. Just an endless loop of password reset buttons, and emails that never come. whatever you do, DO NOT forget your password! Because once you’ve set yourself up as a member, no one there will EVER care whether or not you can actually access your account. At that point, you have two options: revive a MySpace and help turn it into an alternative; or, contact the Russian hackers to see if they still have it. And if that doesn’t work… Help us, Anonymous, you’re our only hope!!!

Had to write my first review for an app that I love. Recognize that i am not objective since I use the site every day (recruiter) so I see it a little differently.
But lets look at the site from a user perspective. LinkedIn is not Facebook, Unilocal,or close to any other social media tool out there. It is not something you are suppose to use daily (although they are trying to be more useful on a daily basis). This tool is for loose connections that sometimes you help or ask for help. The tool is for the world to see your personal brand. How often do you use your resume? How often do you send an email to a long lost acquaintance for a professional question? LinkedIn would like you to use the tool once a week but recognizes you probably won’t. That is ok!
But when you do use the tool, it can be awesome. Those times when you are looking for a job or want to add a connection to a current coworker so that you can keep track of them later. Most of the time a user will log on only when someone else invites and then they remember to look for a few people they have been meaning to connect with.
Then there is that rare occasion when i get the email from a recruiter asking if I want a job. Most of the time the job is appropriate because my LinkedIn profile is mostly up to date. The emails i get from monster recruiters are so far off from my profile, I know they didn’t read my resume. Haven’t gotten a job from LinkedIn yet but received some offers I was honestly interested in.
Since I don’t let my coworkers on Facebook, LinkedIn is my best option. And it is really the only option for resumes and recruiters currently. Yes there are other problems that I haven’t personally run into but nothing compared to my Facebook or Google problems.
Once again, don’t treat this like Facebook, cause it isn’t. Better to think of it as your professional resume, your address book of professional connections, and (if you are really good at this stuff) your personal online brand.

On Unilocal,I’ll add you as a friend because I either think you are funny or I am screwing around. On Facebook, chances are that I know you personally. On twitter, you probably are a source of news related to my work. But Linkedin is a conundrum…
I (that’s me, myself and I) use Linkedin for business and professional purposes. It has been an amazing resource for helping me track down certain contacts in the professional world. The group settings have also been helpful.
But, sigh, I get a lot of generic «I’d like to add you to my professional network» with no explanation. What the hell do I have to do with a nursing? Why would I want to connect with a high school teacher? These go extra if I don’t know you.
Now, I’m not opposed to «connecting» with a nurse or high-​school teacher, but for Christ sake’s just tell me why. I mean really? Trust me — you don’t get a prize for the most contacts. You really don’t. Even if you did, what the heck would it mean for your business.
So, I’m asking everyone. Please, please think about WHY you are using the site. Don’t just connect randomly. Have a purpose. And don’t get mad at me for not adding you if you don’t tell me why. Use the site intelligently and it will pay you back. Use it stupidly and you’ll just annoy people who have more important things to do…
…I say ironically as I screw around on Unilocal

I have personally found Linkedin to be one of the more useful social interactions on the internet that has come out of this boom of social networking simply because it is useful and great for keeping in touch on a professional level.
The lack of ability to post pictures, and sometimes statuses (although that changed recently.) allows you to keep your profile looking clean and attractive. I’ve gotten plenty of contacts through Linkedin and now you can even do job searches on there. You can see what kind of connections you have at a company even before you reach out to try to find a job.
After all, it’s about who you know not what you know!

Wow, no love for LinkedIn?!?
I can honestly say I appreciate their site for a few reasons:
Contacted by recruiters (without being a premium subscriber)
Easily stay in touch with old coworkers that aren’t quite at Facebook Friend status
Applying at companies, like Unilocal,is faster by submitting your profile via Jobvite
References are easier to obtain than future employers hunting down ex-​bosses
I find it’s a nice and orderly way to archive and build upon my resume.

It’s not a bad idea, but it just seems like everyone connects to anyone they’ve ever known or possibly could have known at some point in time.
And what’s with everyone (well most females) in their mid 20s running some sort of business? It seems like half the people I’m connected with are managing something or other, but I don’t know how successful they are at doing so.
I haven’t really benefited from LinkedIn in any serious way. Maybe I’m not the target audience, or not social enough, but it seems just to be something people do, not something particularly useful.

First, let me tell you what LinkedIn does well.
Their site has a nice resume-​like layout, and the Android application is attractive and well designed.
Why isn’t this a three to four star review, then?
It’s their service. Rather, their total and complete lack of service or support for their users, whether they are personal or paid corporate users.
LinkedIn seems to be built on the model of «Build a website. People eventually pay. We collect money. No support needed.»
Which works fine as long as their site is working properly for your account.
My account, with 145 connections, has an issue where it will not let me upload additional contacts from my well-​maintained gmail account. It comes up with the error message «We are unable to import your email contacts. Please try again later.»
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I’ve tried again later for over a year. Still no dice. I’ve filled out help tickets asking for help with this for over a year. Still no help. I’ve tweeted about it, pleaded about it, begged about it, and emailed about it. Still no help.
The closest I came to real help was a suggestion from LinkedIn to try exporting my contacts from Gmail as a CSV and then using LinkedIn’s CSV upload tool to import the contacts. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work, either. Error message: «We can’t upload your file at this moment. Please try again later.» Again, same error for over a year now. No help.
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LinkedIn’s poor customer service is not limited to personal user accounts, either. I have had issues purchasing advertising from them online for the company I work for with a similar lack of support or response.
If this were a brick and mortar store, nobody would have been excited about its IPO. This isn’t because the site is bad or poorly designed as a business networking tool. It’s because they treat customers with issues as if they were invisible.

A very useful site for professional connections, and yes, a lot of headhunters and recruiters seem to troll the site for people’s information, so make sure you keep it up-​to-​date and accurate. You never know what kind of people you may meet here.
I’m not a premium member, nor do I feel like I need to be one. Most of my networking is still done in-​person, but this is a nice way to collect the younger people’s information.

Are you linked with another?
LinkedIn Corporation is no ordinary social network, it is a professional network specifically to build connections in hopes of gaining professional opportunity. As a longtime member, I personally find their site resourceful and less clustered with nonprofessional nonsense. The site allows users to list one’s dosser of present and past employment or professional career route. There is also an objective or career summary for a brief resume. It is an alternative to connect with another on a professional level with a serious goal rather discuss random nonsense as depicted in Facebook, MySpace, or hi5.
LinkedIn Corporation resides in Mountain View, CA and can be contacted: (650) 687‑3560.

Professionally I have yet to benefit from using LinkedIn. Most of my work has come from my own personal network or websites such as
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The reason I’m writing this review is that I was bombarded… nay…spammed with a ton of messages from LinkedIn on February 24, 2011 around 5:30am. Here’s the kicker: I have my LinkedIn account set up so ALL email notifications are turned OFF.
See the following screenshot (
) as by 7:14am I had already received 353 copies of the SAME LinkedIn email. This wouldn’t really bother me, but it was blowing up my phone as it kept on buzzing with new mail notifications.
I opened a trouble ticket with LinkedIn, included a screenshot of my inbox and informing them of how their email server was spamming me with the same message over and over. By now the number of messages was quickly approaching 500, and I had decided to filter all LinkedIn emails directly to my SPAM box. Heck, I even started a thread on Unilocal to see if anyone else was encountering the same issue:
Close to lunchtime and as the LinkedIn messages approached the 1K mark, I received the following email:
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LinkedIn Customer Support Message
Subject: Spam from LinkedIn???
Hi Antonio,
I apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced.
I have reviewed the issue you described and found that it has now been resolved.
If you are still experiencing this problem, please reply to this message with a screen shot image of your issue and I can proceed to investigate the issue further.
Creating a Screen Shot:
Have a great day!
Regards,
Antoinette
LinkedIn Customer Service
Original Contact:
Member Comment: Antonio M — 02/​24/​2011 06:30
Please note that since 5:22 AM ET I have been receiving the SAME email from LinkedIn. As of 7:20am, I have received over 360 copies of the SAME email!!!
Please look into this ASAP!!!
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The emails finally ceased just short of receiving 1000 messages. The LinkedIn representative offered no explanation, but was kind enough to include a tutorial link showing me how to create a screenshot.
So disappointing. If it wasn’t free, I’d ask for my money back.
Geez, do people actually subscribe and pay for their «premium» service? What a joke…
LinkedIn, not worth the money in my book (the almighty «Book of Antonio»). BTW, thanks for being my 300^th review ya bastids. :-)

I love social networking but a couple of months ago I asked myself — «how do I really want people to know me?’ For sure not a crazy partying me on Facebook or unwanted pictures on Flicker or senseless shout outs on Twitter. So yes, I quit all of them. Except for LinkedIn and Unilocal.It’s very liberating actually. People care about me but they need not know what I do every single second of the day. I’m reverting back to my old good private life.
Now, when I google myself, first thing that comes up is my LinkedIn profile. Which is what we want, right? Or somewhere along the lines of our professional lives.
I do have a professional life. And what I do matters to me and I want people to know what it is — cuz it is, well, life saving in a sense. And I would want future/​past employers, colleagues and even friends look me up through LinkedIn.
In light of an impending massive lay off at my current company, I’m now paying more attention to my LinkedIn. I’ve always wanted my resume posted online but don’t have a site I feel comfortable with. LinkedIn might be a good avenue as I might need to find a job. Now, I am in the process of updating my profile and revisitng my connections again.

For the professional:
LinkedIn is definitely a site that can assist you when it comes to employment. It can help you make connections within your industry. It can help you find a new job. It can greatly assist you in researching new hires for your company. It can be used as a verification tool for resumes and/​or people. Basically, if used correctly LinkedIn can be an integral part of your employment, whatever level you are at.
For those concerned with bells and whistles:
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. The interface is business in the front and well, business in the front. I do believe that this is the way it should be because it is about the connections and the resumes and the corporations, but if you are looking to have some type of enhanced user experience on LinkedIn because of their fresh interface, that is not going to happen. It is easy to manage, but it is just boring to look at.
To those who are in favor of completeness percentages (I am in general), specifically those behind the programming at LinkedIn:
This one sucks. There are some things I have no interest in doing. I don’t need to post my resume on LinkedIn because I thought LinkedIn was an internet resume. Why am I typing in all this stuff if I can just load a document? So my completeness score stays at 75% because I refuse to upload a resume. When I did to see what happens, it made doubles of all of my jobs and screwed everything up. So if it generates your profile from the resume, shouldn’t upload your resume be one of the first things to do?
For the internet stalkers:
This isn’t for you. There aren’t pictures of people with their families where their address is discretely viewable on their mailbox if you enlarge the picture and zoom in behind the family dog. There are not photo albums that rival Girls Gone Wild. There is not a constant feed telling you where someone is, where they are going and when they went to the bathroom last. If you are looking for an old college flame, you might find him/​her, but he/​she won’t be checking this since he/​she already blocked you on Facebook and doesn’t give a crap about LinkedIn after he/​she found out that it was actually a tool for business. As a tool to gain information about someone’s personal life and/​or look at pictures that were supposed to be intended for their «friends,» this is not the site for you.