this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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We don't check. I don't really care as long as they can do the job. But believing they have a degree is useful for telling clients who specifically sometimes ask about the degrees of the people they'll be working with.
We also don't DM people trying to recruit people tho.
I swear being on linked in is like a dating app.
If you're a male in IT, the recruiters that DM you are always hot but likely bots. When you interact with them, they always want to steer you toward jobs that have nothing to do with what you want.
They blue ball you until you get through the interview and then ghost you.
Dude in iT, never had that problem and even doubled my salary through linked in. Anytime I actually interact with a recruiter I lay down my bare minimums and won't even bother responding further/block if they can't hit that.
That said, LinkedIn is a shit hole not worth touching more than once every couple of years if you're not looking for a gig. I don't even really interact with people I actually know in there because the platform is terrible and 90% of public posts are from sociopaths who despise work life balance.
I used to work for a company that provided programming consultants for the US military and for defense contractors. The hourly rate we could be billed out at was entirely dependent on highest degree attained, so PhDs could be billed out at the highest rate, followed by Masters, then Bachelors of Science and then Bachelors of Art. It didn't even matter what field your PhD was in, so my company was chock-full of useless people with advanced degrees who got put onto every project and told to just stay home. The worst thing was when they insisted on showing up and doing something.
Are they hiring?
Desperately. And it's a decent gig, or at least it will be until they decide AI can do it, at which point we're going to get a bunch of flattened children.
I am a useless person with a PhD...
I've had a job sorta like that where I was paid more to do the job and given better hours than some people with more relevant coursework just because I have a degree and they didn't quite have one. Like, I wasn't gonna complain and I was actually quite good at my job, but it had nothing do with the "BS" in my resume. No one was totally incompetent at the job at least.
They eventually switched to paying primarily by relevant experience primarily rather than degree level, which seems like a better predictor of being good at the job from what I've seen.
This could never go wrong