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HOW TO: Land a Job at LinkedIn

• rhizome 15y ago
  As a sometime-user of LinkedIn, it's clear that this article is a sales pitch to counter their inability to hire user- and customer-oriented development staff. I have to wonder if they're having trouble finding truly capable people who want to work there, or if it's just that the ones who do take positions have their spirits broken soon after joining. "Welcome to our codebase...good luck!" Their site is a clunky nightmare with features grafted on here and tucked away there, and seems to use no convention wisdom with regard to usability. It's fine to incorporate Amazonian continuous deployment and engineers-own-their-features policy into your own company, but when the business product evolves into a kitchen-sink mishmash of grafted on features, the product needs adult supervision. Seriously, using LinkedIn was one of the experiences that led me to start making something better (in a different channel, natch) all by myself. Aside from capitalization and business responsibilities, it's not a pipe-dream for creative technicals to DIY a focussed social network. tl;dr: LinkedIn has too many cooks, yadda yadda. Come work here!