As an engineer at LinkedIn, this makes me very happy to hear. We work really hard on the product and try to improve the experience wherever we can, and it's nice to know people find some utility in the work we do.
The first thing I hear when I tell someone I work at LinkedIn is: "You guys spam too much." I can't blame them because even I get frustrated with the volume of email I get from LinkedIn each day. For the most part, each product team is responsible for the frequency of their emails. Our team tries to cut down on spam wherever possible. Unfortunately, there are differing philosophies within the company (and within the industry) regarding what constitutes spam.
As a user I don't mind the emails too much and I have successfully been recruited via LinkedIn so it does add value for me.
My big gripe is that clicking through emails on mobile is usually a bad experience. Mostly it either wants me to log in for something I normally would not have to on a normal desktop and it always, always nags me about opening in the app first which is annoying after the 50th time.
I also think the updated recommendations feature is not useful since 1) the UI can take away from the rest of your profile by taking up too much room and 2) people not qualified to give a recommendation for a given skill do so. Your Uncle bob may be qualified to say you are an awesome programmer but mine is sure not.
Oh, my god yes. Stop sending me email that just doesn't work on mobile. I process a lot of mail on my iPhone, I just delete the linkedin email now because it's useless to try to interact with it.
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As an engineer at LinkedIn, this makes me very happy to hear. We work really hard on the product and try to improve the experience wherever we can, and it's nice to know people find some utility in the work we do.
The first thing I hear when I tell someone I work at LinkedIn is: "You guys spam too much." I can't blame them because even I get frustrated with the volume of email I get from LinkedIn each day. For the most part, each product team is responsible for the frequency of their emails. Our team tries to cut down on spam wherever possible. Unfortunately, there are differing philosophies within the company (and within the industry) regarding what constitutes spam.
As a user I don't mind the emails too much and I have successfully been recruited via LinkedIn so it does add value for me.
My big gripe is that clicking through emails on mobile is usually a bad experience. Mostly it either wants me to log in for something I normally would not have to on a normal desktop and it always, always nags me about opening in the app first which is annoying after the 50th time.
I also think the updated recommendations feature is not useful since 1) the UI can take away from the rest of your profile by taking up too much room and 2) people not qualified to give a recommendation for a given skill do so. Your Uncle bob may be qualified to say you are an awesome programmer but mine is sure not.
Oh, my god yes. Stop sending me email that just doesn't work on mobile. I process a lot of mail on my iPhone, I just delete the linkedin email now because it's useless to try to interact with it.
Your export to PDF feature needs to include the screenshot section you recently added!
Now get to work adding that feature!