LinkedIn tried to hire me to help with their SaltStack infrastructure several years ago when they were first rolling it out/beefing up their infra with it and I emphatically said no. Even if I like working with the technology I would never work somewhere like LinkedIn, they are scum and working there lowers my opinion of a person.
* They steal the address book of any user who installs their app, collecting private information of people who have given no such consent
* They then proceed to create shadow profiles of all those people that haven't registered, creating the illusion that more people are on LinkedIn than really are (not sure if they still do this)
* They then start spamming all those contacts with multiple emails per day, for several days, asking them to register with LinkedIn. There is no "fuck off and stop emailing me" button, the only way to make it stop is to register for an account
I've blacklisted linkedin.com in my mailservers for this reason. And I would agree with the GP that they are scum and that working there lowers my opinion of a person.
I would assume it is related to their widespread use of dark UI patterns and general attempts to get your to share e-mail-addresses of everyone you've ever communicated with. Constant badgering with new types of notification emails and generally strange user-hostility.
I use the site but I'm deeply skeptical of the way their business tactics appear in my interactions with the site.
Edit: I would probably meet them for an interview to get a feeling for the company and team, but as a company they start on the minus side for me.
I don't know are they really scum, but also for me the platform is mostly clueless headhunter bots offering Ruby positions even without reading my CV. Ok, I know it's nice that we have headhunters banging our doors, but when you like to do things properly yourself, you kind of expect the same from the headhunters.
