I don’t understand why LinkedIn is and need to be so heavy and slow at all. In a way, similar to Facebook I guess?
Even though they provide several services - social network, jobs (for hiring managers and jobseekers), learning etc., none of them really have any tight integration with each other and can easily exist as separate services.
The website and apps are clunky and slow to load and has tons of dark patterns (contacts upload, profile visit tracking, everything over-shared by default, email blast when you sign-up etc.). I have heard LinkedIn hires lot of bright people and pays them quite well - but why their product still sucks?
Because engineers don't make decisions. Managers do. It doesn't matter if you have the smartest engineers in the universe, if you're still going to incentivise managers with dark patterns.
This is the 'fun' part of having many engineering teams with full autonomy of various subsystems, and with no prior discussion, they decide to start writing cookies. Running in isolation, their single service may not blow the limit. But it's a shared resource and generally nobody is keeping track of when that 8kb limit is reached.
Seeing the tracking data report from mobile Safari was quite a thing to behold. There is quite a valuable service in LinkedIn, but quite annoying to use currently. Also had the experience on the mobile version where it just plain stopped rendering input text, which was quite interesting to type through.
blntechie|4 years ago
Even though they provide several services - social network, jobs (for hiring managers and jobseekers), learning etc., none of them really have any tight integration with each other and can easily exist as separate services.
The website and apps are clunky and slow to load and has tons of dark patterns (contacts upload, profile visit tracking, everything over-shared by default, email blast when you sign-up etc.). I have heard LinkedIn hires lot of bright people and pays them quite well - but why their product still sucks?
Hakashiro|4 years ago
Because engineers don't make decisions. Managers do. It doesn't matter if you have the smartest engineers in the universe, if you're still going to incentivise managers with dark patterns.
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