LinkedIn is a ghetto with no redeeming value. It has close to 0 value for job seekers. In the past year I’ve received 5 real contacts from hiring managers (sad

LinkedIn is a ghetto with no redeeming value. It has close to 0 value for job seekers. In the past year I’ve received 5 real contacts from hiring managers (sadly all of whom wanted SRE, not DevOps. I find sre dull and I would rather be on the dole than waste my life in performance analysis). I also received over 1,500 connection requests and 5,000 InMails from parasitic headhunters. None of those had jobs amenable to my location or skillset. 75% of them were from spam houses in India. The other 25% were from generally incompetent headhunting sweatshops in the usa. I don’t give a crap about inspirational stories frok the head of DailyMail (I Hired a FELON), or other social media garbage. I just wanted a job. I gave up on my search and deleted my linkedin protile for good this week. It was the most freeing feeling since deleting pagerduty and facebook. I worked for Reid Hoffman about 20 years ago. If I could get him on the phone I would ask him if he had any idea what a piece of trash linkedin has become.