I got bit by infinite scrolling yesterday. I liked an article, clicked in the URL, copied and pasted it into a group chat with my team... and then noticed it was the wrong URL. The fine website had "helpfully" autoscrolled a smidge into the next article, so it updated the URL box to the next article. Lesson learned-- read before pasting...
You might resent the autoscroll on the website, but did you consider that the group chat program also has an infinite scroll, for chat history? Imagine what a hypothetical scrollbar for the group-chat program would look like if it had one, and if that scrollbar actually represented your relative position in a complete timeline going back to when the chat-group was created. :)
Unfortunately, this is not true. I got hit with the paygate while searching for people I used to work with, because I would like to find a job. I was told by LinkedIN that I must be a recruiter, so I would have to signup for premium. So I signed up for the free 30 days of premium, and it still refused to let me search for the people I used to work with. I filed a bug report, and it took more than a day for the LinkedIN staff to admit they were still intentionally blocking me because they really really wanted my money. 30 days free doesn't mean what I think it means. I paid them with a credit card, and my searches worked. I was going to wait until I get hired to blast LinkedIN (and Indeed.com) for their evil patterns, but I could not resist adding a comment to this thread. Suggestion to LinkedIN execs-- if you need my money, just ask. Don't over promise and under deliver.
I miss the days when I could search with AND, OR, +word and -word. Now if I search google with more than one word it no longer searches the internet. Instead it searches for ads that are somewhat similar to my query and features those. Any useful links on the first page are accidental.
I am also searching now, so here are my statistics after four months searching Silicon Valley for a combo hardware/software job, with masters degree, and lots of experience (old :-)
75 applications
48 companies employ someone I know
27 companies I applied without knowing anyone
13 phone interviews
6 face-to-face interviews
zero face-to-face interviews at companies
where I don't know anyone
zero offers so far
one company is at the offer stage (perfect fit, I have worked with the hiring manager for years-- he ought to offer)
four companies are currently between the first interview and the offer stage.
Other interesting observations:
one company called back for a second interview after six weeks. I thought they had ghosted me.
Another company (highly qualified) called for a second interview after three months.
There was a company that listed reasonable requirements on their ad, and then in the phone interview they wanted someone with extreme talent. Why waste my time? Why waste their time? Don't put hard requirements in the "nice to have" section please!
The one month free trial does not mean much. Linkedin flagged me as a recruiter, and refused to let me search for people at one of my previous companies. They insisted I had to be a premium member to search the way I was searching. I signed up for the free month of premium, and I was still flagged as a recruiter, and my searches denied. Linkedin support had difficulty explaining there were two levels of premium, but they finally confirmed I had to pay to be able to search. I paid. Then my searches sort of worked. Out of five specific people, only one was actually in Linkedin. I realize they need money to make their business work. I just did not like the way they extracted the money from me. My free advice: don't search like a recruiter. Whatever that means.
I have used stack exchange properties as read-only for several years now. I would continue to contribute so I can payback the help I have received, but it is not a friendly place.
Is there a solution to this?
Someone will reinvent a new service, so a new community will form, and then most important data will be recreated?
I start with DDG now, and switch to Google if their results are not good enough. 90% of the time its fine.
Google intentionally broke image search, and their top search results are getting very bad. Its as if my question was "show me links to as many ads as possible that might be related to my search terms." Do Google advertisers realize I see their ad when it matches only one of my search words? If they read more than one of my words, they know that was a wasted advertisement.
