I’ve only recently started to watch FX’s restaurant comedy-drama “The Bear” and it stresses me out. Don’t get me wrong — it’s a great show, but it fills me with anxiety. The flames, the clatter of plates, the shouting (“CORNER!”), the sweating, the tight spaces, the lines out the door, and did I mention the…
Equity Journey Update: 10 Million and Counting Addressing bias is a step on our journey to help drive equitable outcomes for all members of the global workforce. An important component of this work centers on our LinkedIn Feed and understanding how our members experience our platform, especially those from historically and systemically marginalized communities. Several…
Today, Microsoft announced Q4 FY23 Earnings. Included in the report on the financial performance were the following LinkedIn highlights: In Q4, LinkedIn’s revenue increased 5% year-over-year (7% in constant currency). LinkedIn’s revenue surpassed $15 billion for the first time this fiscal year and membership growth has now accelerated for eight quarters in a row, a…
LinkedIn and Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Bowers CIS) embarked on a partnership, bringing together our collective research power to make technological advances that will further our goal to connect professionals with opportunities at scale. Through this partnership, we support Ph.D. students and faculty members on their research in areas…
It turns out that the four-day workweek is the gift that keeps on giving. Over the past 18 months, dozens of companies in Canada, Ireland, the U.K., and the U.S. have been experimenting with a four-day workweek. Early results have been positive: Employees in the trials reported being happier while still being able to keep…
Today, lead attorney Sarah Wight shared an update on LinkedIn about the hiQ court ruling that LinkedIn may enforce its User Agreement against data scraping and fake accounts. This is a significant step in helping us keep our platform and members safe, so we’re sharing it with you in full text here. Today in the hiQ legal proceeding,…
Starting a new job—whether it’s your first position, or a next step on your career journey—learning the language of a new workplace is tough. To better understand how professionals all over the world feel about workplace jargon, LinkedIn and Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning platform, partnered to release the State of Workplace Jargon Report. …
Figure 3: Deployed System Figure 3 shows system components of OpenHouse deployed at LinkedIn. Each component is numbered and its purpose is as follows: Table service: This is a RESTful web service that exposes tables REST resources. This service is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster with a fronting Envoy Network Proxy. REST clients: A variety…
Skills-first hiring will become more achievable There are many benefits to hiring for skills over pedigree. “Focusing on skills and past experience and performance,” says Stacy Donovan Zapar, founder of The Talent Agency, “is a much more accurate predictor of success and will lead to stronger, more diverse teams that have both the breadth and…
Co-authors – Blake Lawit and Ya Xu LinkedIn was founded with a clear vision to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. In 2023, we are seeing transformative advances in AI that have the potential to help us accelerate our progress toward that vision. AI is not new to LinkedIn. LinkedIn has long used AI…