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A muslim guy named Firaz over LinkedIn openly abused our Prime Minister Narendra Modi by commenting on a post of 15th August speech by Prime Minister. When I reported this on LinkedIn, I got a response that this abusive derogatory comment doesn't go against their community standards on LinkedIn. To the shock I decided to gave a befitting reply to that guy and asked him to leave my country if he didn't like being here and can go to any neighbouring terrorist countries. This is not just one example, there were several post abusing Hindus and Narendra Modi. When I opposed those post, LinkedIn suddenly restricted my account.

But to my surprise they even refused to delete my account and related data they are holding and said until and unless you apologize we will not delete your account. Its like they didn't liked me calling an extremist mentality a terrorist. LinkedIn is now asking for ransom and threating me of not deleting my personal data until I apologise. Their love for terrorist and extremist has evolved to the next level. I will not be surprised if tomorrow linkedin started blocking someone's account because they called Taliban terrorist. Please someone help in getting my data and personal information deleted from LinkedIn.

Date of experience: August 18, 2021
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have tried using LinkedIn over 50 times and never gotten a call from any of them. Compare to Indeed with an average of 10 of 50 or other sites with similar results? Why is that? Part of it is that they most often force a total rewrite of your resume on third party sites. Partly because LinkedIn's entry area is as bad as most third party companies' that they force you to use. LinkedIn has very limited listings and if you make a change to your options, your history most often gets blown away. So, you lose anything you saved. Or applied to. It is even worse than that, but it would be best, just to shut it down. It is a complete waste of time.

Date of experience: August 14, 2021
California
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Linkedin is fascists.
August 12, 2021

They booted me for posting my personal info.
My own personal info.
Not anyone else my own.

State farm has the hand in the pockets of linkedin.
They don't like those whom speak out against atrocities.

Fascist

Date of experience: August 12, 2021
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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After 10 years of loyal use of LinkedIn
August 5, 2021

After 10 years of loyal use of LinkedIn without issue, I have just had my Linkedin Account permanently deleted. I have even been responsible for bringing in SalesNav to several different businesses, arguably to the tune of tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds...

This was due to too many profile views, which seems unfair as social selling is part of my job. I even asked and got authorization from my manager for SalesNav in my new role so this wouldn't happen. There was no automation software used as LinkedIn has tried to claim.

They have taken my money for Linkedin Sales Nav and banned me on the same day, I have been told I am now permanently restricted with no ground for appeal. The fact there is no one you can speak to directly is a joke, completely unprofessional and unaccountable decision-making process.

You cant even appeal or make complaints without access to LinkedIn, I have been treated like dirt throughout the whole process. Even asking for my passport as proof of verification seems massive breach of privacy.

I desperately need my account for my work, this not only impacts the job security of my current role but my future career prospects. Despite saying I will do my utmost to ensure I will abide by LinkedIn's TCs going forward, I have been told this restriction will remain in place.

After ten years of being a brand advocate, I will no longer be recommending LinkedIn sales nav or other Linkedin tools for any future company I join...

Date of experience: August 5, 2021
India
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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August 1, 2021

This is an excellent app to get job online and also an excellent platform to get online works and jobs and the best feature is that is an excellent platform to promote your business online

Date of experience: August 1, 2021
Florida
1 review
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Anita Khan Disney Recruiter
July 28, 2021

This ladybwho works for disney as a recruiter
Is a mean spirited judgemental prejudice individual.
She plays nice with workmates but to potential new hires she is horrible. She has been the reason so many applicants have been unfairly turned away from Disney. Shebis harsh(not stern) in decision making. I don't think disney is aware of how bad she treats potential newhires. She is discouraging and phony. Anita khan has told Lies to people based on their personal living conditions as a way to turn someone down for employment. She has stated to several applicants that EVERY disney has a car or good enough living condition in order to worknthere, which is a complete lie. She has told people there is no transportation throughout the property for worke6to get to another property if needed... which is also a complete lie. How is she still working with so many complaints. I think disney needs to get rid of that tyrant

Date of experience: July 28, 2021
Germany
1 review
4 helpful votes
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My account was restricted for some reason. I contacted customer support three separate times to get my account unrestricted or at least know why my account was restricted.

After contacting their support, I was told it was because of a "misrepresented identity".

After elevation since that never happened, I was then told it wasn't because of a misrepresented identity, but they still wouldn't tell me why my account was restricted.

After I asked why they wouldn't tell me why my account was restricted, they said the privacy policy says they can't tell me (I read through the privacy policy multiple times, and there is nothing even somewhat referencing this, they directly lied to me). They refused to give me the location of this "policy" on the privacy policy when asked.

I have been trying to get in-touch with LinkedIn's legal team, but they have not responded or seem to mind that their customer support is making up legal information.

Date of experience: July 2, 2021
Philippines
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Neaseating in its fake perspective.
June 24, 2021

Neaseating in its fake perspective? Well, I used to work in engineering design in the oil industry. Since 2014 the industry world wide has been dessimated. Maybe 40 % of all people with no work, hundreds of thousands of people searching for some alternative thing to do with their lives. You would never guess it from browsing LinkedIn. Only posts about successfully completed projects along with photos of infrastructure and smiling faces. Business as normal. People constantly complaining that it's a professional discussion forum and not for chatter like Facebook. When it is pointed out that this concept has a prerequisite that people actually require to be in a profession, it goes over their heads like a Boeing 747. FAKE. OUT OF TOUCH REALITY FAKE. As for a mechanism for making professional contacts to reinvigorate job opportunities, forget it. Loads of Indian nationals posting " review my profile" in response to posts about completed projects by companies not seeking people.

Date of experience: June 24, 2021
Australia
1 review
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Trial automatically changed to premium
June 19, 2021

I found LinkedIn to be a good professional service, however I was disappointed to find that my trial was automatically transferred to a premium membership and I was charged a monthly fee. I contacted their customer support and they were helpful in refunding the fee, however I found this to be a bit deceptive and so I have downgraded my 5 star rating

Date of experience: June 19, 2021
New Zealand
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Page Hijacked - Linkedin refuse to help
June 18, 2021

One of our competitors is using our URL on linked in and has established a business page for his business. All of the information on the page associated with our URL relates to the competing business and we are not able to establish a page ourselves because our URL is already being used.
Linked in do not consider this to be a copyright infringement and refuse to help resolve this issue.

Thanks so much for the non response "Fiona"

Date of experience: June 18, 2021
Canada
1 review
11 helpful votes
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WASTE of Money for Recruiters!
June 9, 2021

I work as a Recruiter and I need LinkedIn to perform my job. Our company uses LinkedIn and we pay THOUSANDS EVERY YEAR for their Enterprise services to Recruiters to find talent/candidates. And part of our jobs is to contact people using their InMail service and post jobs.

In February 2021, my colleague and I got restricted from LinkedIn. He was unrestricted, freed to use his account again, whereas I am not. LinkedIn claimed that we were sending spamming messages, but lots of Recruiters use their InMail service to send messages to potential candidates, so I don't know if their algorithm knows how to detect real spam. We both did the same things but only my LinkedIn account is still restricted/banned? Is this enough evidence to be considered unfair treatment? The other two colleagues in the past had been restricted but then unrestricted too.

Restricting my account resulted in thousands of job postings being taken down as well, hindering a lot of hirings and project deliverables to our clients back in February 2021.

Since I could not have that first account back, I created a second account because I need LinkedIn to work, recently my second account has been restricted without being told the reason. I did not send any messages to people I didn't know, didn't add anyone I didn't know. Their responses are vague, automated, and, utterly rude.

I would NOT recommend LinkedIn for anyone and especially companies looking for talent, since their customer service is INEFFICIENT and you will spend THOUSANDS for nothing.

Date of experience: June 9, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Linkedin just like FakeBook
June 3, 2021

I only put the truth out there and linkedin blocked me. I guess the American companies are all gone. I will be removing my information from linkedin. BYE BYE linkedin.

Date of experience: June 3, 2021
New York
3 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Site is full of pretentious narcissists! IIt's literally Facebook for problematic corporate/career nutjobs! Mark Cogan has an interesting post on the topic ("LinkedIn Profile Rankings: Feeding Narcissism?"
"The network is home to entertaining posts that expose insecurities and tribalism"

Date of experience: May 22, 2021
New York
1 review
8 helpful votes
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My account got restricted. I'm not sure what I did wrong other than not wanting to put my full name public on the internet.

Date of experience: May 10, 2021
Wisconsin
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Linkedin.com appears to be Liberal-controlled playing politics and Banning people without facts.
When facts are shared proving your case you may still be banned any belief to the contrary will have your account shut down. They have joined the Ranks of Fascistbook. I would not pay for their services and leave their platform. I was banned for posting a video of a vaccine-injured person trying to warn others of the dangers of the Covid 19 Vaccine. They tried to say the video is misleading. I posted VAERS reports back to them with backed up CDC data and they banned me.

Date of experience: May 8, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
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April 30, 2021

Not happy with quality of the product, also the size, I was looking for a Banner to put it in the business as sign

Date of experience: April 29, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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LinkedIn allows fake profiles to remain on their platform. If someone steals someone's ID and starts to use their name to impersonate them, esp. Setting up a platform on LinkedIn. LinkedIn will not remove the profile. This happen to me. Someone, pretending to be me, is using my name without my consent. They have committed ID theft. This was reported to LinkedIn, and they did nothing. Their response is, " we respect the right of all members to freely express themselves. We don't monitor, filter, or remove member-generated content from our site unless they are inappropriate as defined in our User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. " This is their way of letting you know that someone stealing someone else ID and using the name to set up a profile on LinkedIn (basically steal someone's Identity). Isn't inappropriate for them (LinkedIn). The profiles on LinkedIn cannot be trusted as real, unless you know for sure the profile is of the person or business you believe they are portraying. Below is an example of a fake profile who has stolen and is using the name (identity) of someone else.

Date of experience: March 27, 2021
Ecuador
1 review
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Mr. Daniel answered my phone call. I'm pleased by his attention and cordiality. I do appreciate politeness. He also speaks Spanish, I do give credit for that as well (my english is not that perfect, so I do appreciate this a lot!).
And he answered my request immediately. From my perspective it is a well deserved a 5/5 stars.
Have a great day and be safe.

Date of experience: March 16, 2021
Indonesia
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Very helpful app
March 14, 2021

Hi there this is james, i love linkedin.com because it's very helpful to geting job online. I highly recommended to everyone to linkedin

Date of experience: March 13, 2021
Virginia
1 review
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I cited you as an example of innovative customer exp. In a book I ghostwriting for a well-known SM marketing expert.

Date of experience: March 1, 2021