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LinkedIn Reviews Summary

The company has garnered mixed feedback regarding its reputation and customer service. On the positive side, some users appreciate its role in professional networking and career advancement, highlighting the platform's user-friendly interface and valuable resources for job seekers. However, significant concerns persist regarding account security, complicated verification processes, and customer support responsiveness. Many users report difficulties in account recovery, excessive spam, and a lack of effective communication from the company. Overall, while the platform offers potential benefits for networking and job searching, users frequently express frustration with its operational inefficiencies and perceived lack of support.

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Georgia
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LinkedIn Sucks
January 16, 2021

LinkedIn sucks, as they restrict your 1st amendment right, and restrict your account if you post the truth.

Date of experience: January 16, 2021
Pakistan
5 reviews
1 helpful vote
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About Their service
January 13, 2021

This is an execellent app to get job online and also an execellent platform to get online works and jobs and the best features is that this is an execellent platform to promote your bussiness

Date of experience: January 12, 2021
Portugal
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Hi, I would like to say that am unhappy because if I want to contact someone who's not connected to me as a friend then I get this: "messaging Rhea and other people not in your network will require a premium subscription". The premium subscription costs £50 every month. In that case every month I have to pay £50 for just a one person that I won't often be chatting her. This is very unfortunate. I saw your response on Google Playstore but you haven't done anything about it. Make it free available to others to message to others who aren't connected then if they refuse to respond then they can have the options to disconnect so their messages won't be received. Even if I had £3000 or £5000 I would not pay for the premium to chat only one person. That is it.

Date of experience: January 5, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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About Customer Support
December 18, 2020

LinkedIn is emerged as the best application/web for connecting with professionals and companies so easily. It helps me a lot to improve my personality and find a suitable job.

Date of experience: December 17, 2020
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Arrogant Behaviour!
December 10, 2020

We have two accounts and one professional and one business and after constant marketing from LinkedIn. We decided yet again to pay for a service that in essence we constantly fight with LinkedIn on!
It says we have used all our Inmails yet we had not actually used them! We are constantly restricted trying to connect with people which defeats the object of the exercise! The only winner is LinkedIn they take our money then prevent and restrict us and then they will not answer any questions or justify actions! Simply arrogant! Our business account was restricted without any notification ajd explanation when we had actually been querying our other account which we them for and they don't answer the queries! Then just do this! LinkedIn is an apalling company and the hide behind closed doors behaviour is a disgrace and not ok!
I hope a competitor comes forward sooner rather than later as it's not acceptable conduct!

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
New Zealand
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Same as everyone else.

They keep bugging you to try premium to the point where they make it hard to function on your normal account.
They say it's free, but apparently I have done a "free" trial before so charged me $240 straight away.

They don't respond to your emails and go silent, so they can pocket the cash.

How does a professional entity get away with this?

Date of experience: November 4, 2020
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Linkedin is a scam
October 16, 2020

Out of curiosity I took a free trial a few months ago. I didn't realize that linkedin automatically promotes you to a premium member without asking your feedback.
They began to charge me and I didn't receive any reminders about canceling my subscription or any follow up about my experience. I also don't have a company and I am on disability. I had no use for their services and I barely get by with rent or basic necessities.
The 65 dollar charges poured on for 2 months and maybe more depending on what my bank says after their investigation.
Any communication they gave me was in a "social" heading at gmail. I never open my junk mail or social mail.
I just hope they read this and have a little heart for me.

Date of experience: October 16, 2020
Oregon
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Not a safe place to have a professional opinion in most professions. Especially if you are a women. LinkedIn does not respect women whom have professional scientific reasoning and professional opinions that vary from the political slant posted by either a member or otherwise linkedin; however LinkedIn will continue to push the political slant into your feed continually inviting you to acknowledge the political topic which is slanted and not academically or professionally sound. If you don't like it and if you contribute your intelligent, professional and academically sound comment LinkedIn members state hate things to a person such as Members stating hate statement to me and others I have witnessed). Very disappointed in the lack of professionalism from LinkedIn employees whom allow the members and themselves to be so hateful to women and others on LinkedIn whom state professional scientific academically sound verbiage on a topic.

Date of experience: October 1, 2020
India
12 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Make Connection
October 2, 2020

LinkedIn is a best app to connect with people on professional level. Connect with right people related to your line of work to get your perfect job.

Date of experience: October 1, 2020
Norway
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Just OK
September 22, 2020

Website/App is useful. But has lots of bugs and issues. Mainly, even after loading/refreshing the 'Home' page, it keeps on showing the old posts. What it should do is, when the 'Home' page gets refreshed/reloaded, the posts should be arranged from the most recent to the old ones.

Date of experience: September 21, 2020
India
10 reviews
1 helpful vote
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"Best Chat App Ever"
September 2, 2020

It's the best chat app I've ever seen, I love it very much. It's so simple, that this app can be used by all generations. It is useful for conversation, messaging and video calling. Sending free texts across channels is an excellent choice, including globally. Eventually, there are several other apps but I would recommend Whatsapp to everyone.

Date of experience: September 2, 2020
California
4 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Dont do it
July 7, 2020

I tried the "free" 30 day Premium subscription & cancelled well within the 30 day deadline. However, because I had been required to provide my payment information, LinkedIn nonetheles

Date of experience: July 7, 2020
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Promises promises
June 30, 2020

I agreed to try LinkedIn Premium for a free month. It advised me that I would be advised a week before the first charge on my credit card was made, to give me a chance to cancel if I did not like it. I waited for the advice assuming there would be an e-mail. Nothing arrived and I learned my credit card was charged when I happened to check my credit card account on the exact expiry date of my free month. I did not find LinkedIn premium of any use to me personally, and feel like a sucker for believing that advice that I would hear from them. So just a word of warning not to rely on that promise to advise you a week before they grab your money.

Date of experience: June 30, 2020
India
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Linked In is an unprofessional social media web site, they can block your account any time without giving any reason. They do not care about customer.

Date of experience: May 18, 2020
Ireland
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Can you explane why you depleted London real page and Brian Ross profile
How you are to do that? Another company to regulated what we can watch and what we can't

Date of experience: April 16, 2020
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I've was a paid subscriber on LinkedIn for over 3 years. After getting blocked for 3 months on sending messages they wrote me asking to remove all pending contact requests and this would fix the problem. I did exactly what they asked and NOW... I'm still blocked.

I requested a cancellation of my account and a refund of the 3 months of payment. They only returned one month of payment. I've sent 5 follow-up messages to them over the past 11 days with NO response.

Any suggestions?

Date of experience: April 14, 2020
Canada
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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LinkedIn has helped me and my professional career incredibly! It is sooo easy to network and connect with past employers

Date of experience: April 7, 2020
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I am a Knight of Justice of the Sovereign Order of St. John. My grandparents and parents have been stationed as US diplomats in the former British sector of West Germany. I have a diplomatic passport myself. I currently live in London and I am a member of the British Conservative party.

My family's diplomatic identity is from a time during the Cold War when US American diplomats needed extra protection for their work, as West Germany was a conflict region. We received second identities to live a relatively normal civilian life. I can not change the name on my German passport as it is a diplomatic one. I filled a legal deed poll change of name in the UK to change all the details of my other documents. (I currently have no US documents available)

I built up my professional profile on Linkedin under my original birth name, for which I even have more than enough evidence and documentation, as an accountant, for which I have a degree including several fields of studies. I added my personal work, even included diplomatic letters. It started when I wanted to connect with members of an Israeli organisation, with members of the Knights of St, John as well as members of the Conservative party of the United Kingdom.

I can not think of anything more normal than wanting to connect with members of the same organisation than you are on a professional platform.

My account got restricted during the process of connecting. It still is restricted. Do you know how this looks when your Linkedin account gets restricted during the time of connecting with fellow party or organisational members? They will think that you are a fake and a liar.

Alone this damage has Linkedin already done to me, a Knight, Diplomat, member of the British Conservative party and other. This can easily be interpreted as character assassination.

I start seriously to believe that Linkedin is a job terror network and the reason why so many migrants receive positions within our economy. When analysing that Linkedin is a subsidiary of Microsoft and Microsoft having currently migrant CEO's is this not a wonder.

But it gets really a little too obvious when diplomats, Knights, members of the Conservative party and Israel lover have their account restricted during the time when wanting to connect to other members.

I have then searched for negative reviews and found that the majority of at least 80 % of reviews everywhere are extremely negative of Linkedin. While stating that their overall score is 4 out of 5 stary. This gives me reason to believe that Linkedin is a massive fake operation by corrupt and subverted government positions, artificially creating positive overall scores, lying with the numbers of the actual users as well as lying about the job opportunities.

Date of experience: March 15, 2020
Costa Rica
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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LinkedIn is more than a job locator. Community is a great source of professional Info, technical resources and leadership tips.

Date of experience: March 3, 2020
Greece
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I created my linkedin account in 2016 if I remember correctly and because I wasn't really sure what is it about, I used a dummy name to register. In 2017 or so that I decided to start using linkedin, I changed name to my real name, added a bio, picture, my works and everything. Three years later, they suspend my account and after appealing with my real passport, they say that this is not the account owner name, which is ridiculous. I explained to them many times that I used a dummy name to create the account (something like John Whisp), which isn't even a greek name. Also, they wasted all my time and connections, because of their bad system. Why they allowed me to change my name if they gonna nag to me after years? If I couldn't change name back then, I would simply make a new account with my real name. Very bad customer support, ignoring all the context.

Date of experience: February 13, 2020