alt Hacker NewsI was #opentowork on LinkedIn and got approached multiple times with fake companies and interviews. LinkedIn is not doing enough to combat this.
I even create a 1 man company for my consulting services and I receive ads about how people at my company saved me a spot on an online game.
LinkedIn is partially responsible for their neglect here.
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What do you all do to detect if a recruiter or company reaching out to you is real or not? So much is remote now, and somebody could ai-generate a fake company and linkedin presence to make their scams more effective
LinkedIn is a wasteland. Guarantee Microsoft leadership forgets it exists or that they own it. The sooner we stop giving it misplaced respect the sooner it can be replaced by something better.
Agreed, LinkedIn makes it very easy to spoof your credentials. There was a fake profile posing as a recruiter from my company trying to phish people for a long time, we reported it 100x and nothing happened. Finally ran into a guy at a party who worked for LinkedIn and convinced him to flag it internally, lol