LinkedIn Reviews 3,400

My account was suddenly restricted without any specification. In fact, I did not even recieve an email or anything, I just suddenly couldn't get into my account anymore. I have verified my identity recently and now they restricted my account. What incredible weird behaviour especially since I have also not heard a thing from the 2 requests I have made recently to unrestrict my account. After submitting these requests I did not even get a confirmation mail in fact! I know bad customer service when I see it, but this beyond that. If only there was a 0 stars button, or a termination button for the platform, I would've pressed it.

Locked out, want my passport or driving licence to get back in. No thanks!

Planing to buy premium but do people really get hired from here ?

Too many fake job adverts. Literally every 3rd job advert is non-existent on the company's website and when you enquire about the role they were advertising on LinkedIn they're either not hiring or they just ghost you. I have never been hired through here or even invited to an interview, and I do not know a single person who was. It's cool to have a "professional" social network to connect with people but this is definitely not a platform for job seekers.

It's nearly always wrong. What's the use of connecting with people if they aren't going to reply to your messages.

LinkedIn keeps posting high level jobs, like EVP Head of APAC Chief Operating Officer, but there are already 100 applicants in 10 minutes. These high level jobs require really good head hunters to find the right fit.

The companies that use linked in are cheap. They don't want to pay the Executive Search firm money, which they feel they can source a candidate good enough the fill the role.

LinkedIn is truly run by AI, because AI sifts through the CVs and the ones that tick all the boxes are the ones who get the jobs. How many times has LinkedIn been wrong with respect to best fit?? I now of people joining companies to be suddenly removed after 3 months. Then the same job role rolls back onto LinkedIn.

The company HR people must not be too bright to allow the AI to make the choices for candidates, or the HR people are just too lazy to sift through the CVs themselves.

Nuff said,

David

I'm writing this in English, to reach as many potential users as possible.

I was forced to create a profile some years ago, in order to apply for a position. After that, I basically forgot about it. I had one connection in total. In that timespan, I never received notifications, emails with recommended connections or any of that matter. For some reason that changed about one year ago.

I started getting mails and newsletters every day. I unsubscribed. They kept coming, so I went to my profile and deleted it. I was told there is a 30 day period, don't know why, and after that, my account would be gone for ever. Doesn't work.

I then received the same amount of bullshit newsletters and pointless crap. Every time I reported it as spam and also made sure I suspended the newsletter. Every time I was told, I would nonlonher receive anything.

Today I received two newsletters, with the same information. So in short, it doesn't matter if Google mail allows you to unsubscribe, it doesn't help. It doesn't matter if you report it as spam, they keep coming.

Unless you REALLY need to know what every one of your connection is doing all the time, never sign up for LinkedIn. Just look at their score. They don't care. They don't reply. They are unwilling to change their stupid policy and I can't get my head around why they want users to effing hate them this much.

The entire platform is useless. I seriously don't care, if Britta, who is married to Tim, and who is connected to my sister's first husband's second wife, got a new job. F...LinkedIn.

Some privacy settings are hidden throughout the site instead of appearing in Settings & Privacy > Visibility. For example, LinkedIn will ask your connections to endorse you when you add a Skill unless you modify Endorsement settings in the Skills area. Keeping that option out of Settings & Privacy -> Visibility and hiding it elsewhere is a "dark pattern", which tricks you into sharing more than you want.

Honestly, they are more worried about people's comments instead of closing recruitment scammers advertising. So hypocritical.
The two tier system is already here. You can guess.
I was suspended today mentioning these recruitment scammers.

I can not add a new email and delete the old one. Been trying for several weeks!!!!

Our company LinkedIn page became inaccessible. When we tried to log in, we were sent through a cycle of identity verification that didn't resolve anything. I contacted LinkedIn from my own business account. After six weeks of not hearing anything, I asked if they had made any progress. They said they had transferred the case to the business division, but that division closed the case because I was not contacting them through the business account.

Set up an account for business networking. Multiple annoying messages about signing up for their overpriced monthly membership. I ignored them and continued networking. They restricted my account and there is no way to access support without signing in. I do not recommend this app for anyone who is serious about professional networking. I know I'm not the only one either because I checked reddit and there were thousands of people saying the same thing. So glad I didn't sign up for membership.

IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH ANYONE - CUSTOMER SERVICE IS NON EXISTENT
Having been a premium subscriber for many years, they just re-negged on a deal they made with me.
They may still be somewhat the only game in town, they'd do well to remember at the end of the day, no one stays as the only game in town forever. Too much dissatisfaction of late. Particularly when they're dishonest/lie to their subscribers.

LinkedIn is a farce and needs to be audited. Most people are Sus

My account was suddenly restricted without any specification. In fact, I did not even recieve an email or anything, I just suddenly couldn't get into my account anymore. I have verified my identity recently and now they restricted my account. What incredible weird behaviour especially since I have also not heard a thing from the 2 requests I have made recently to unrestrict my account. After submitting these requests I did not even get a confirmation mail in fact! I know bad customer service when I see it, but this beyond that. If only there was a 0 stars button, or a termination button for the platform, I would've pressed it.

Customer support is NOT supportive. They say they can't help. Won't provide assistance on how to fix a situation. Then Bold font (yell) at you and the last sentence..."This case is now closed" Now, I can't access my company page and have no idea how to gain access because I can't get a hold of an old employee. The only thing LI support told me to do is get a new email from my company -- WHAT!? No. LI Customer support is useless

Cannot get rid of these people. I’ve unsubscribed loads of times to no avail. Proper nuisance. Avoid big time.

We are the product that LinkedIn sells to recruiters. Regular people join for "free" and then LinkedIn sells a premium subscription/membership to recruiters for them to have access to our profiles. I'd say 98% of the recruiters who have contacted me don't even have jobs. They just want your resume to either meet their quota or to sell to other data brokers. Another thing I've heard happening is that recruiters will try to find common connections or people they know in the companies where you've worked and try to find out info about you to determine if they should start the screening process with you. Still, as one person said, many recruiters and hiring managers think is suspicious if a candidate doesn't have a profile on LinkedIn. That's the only reason I have one. I suggest you put up as little info as possible and somewhere in your profile say you aren't active on the platform and the best way to reach you is by email. I would not publicly post your email, but only make it available to your connections.

Atrocious service. I retired over 11 years ago and didn’t close my account at the time. I do not wish it to remain visible to the public. I am having problems accessing it to close it down as I can’t remember my email,address or password, despite attempting numerous variations. I asked Linked in to help, and provided my ID as verification. They have requested it again, but there is an IT problem their end so I cannot complete the process. They have now closed my enquiry and have refused to re-open it, leaving me with my inaccurate prior on display. For a professional platform, their service is the most unprofessional I have ever experienced. Disgusted quite frankly.

LinkedIn has repeatedly restricted my account immediately after I amend a paid job posting, with no clear explanation. This has disrupted and delayed an active hiring process and caused real business impact.

The issue appears to be driven by automated restriction systems that are overly aggressive and poorly calibrated. If there is a genuine concern, the account should be routed to a human review rather than repeatedly locked with no transparency.

As a paying customer, this experience is extremely frustrating and undermines trust in the platform for hiring. LinkedIn needs to significantly improve how account restrictions are handled, especially for legitimate business use.

Why does Linkedin need my ID? How do I know that is will not be used for data mining, scamming purposes or what will protect me if one of these scammers that post jobs to steal from people from using it for identity theft purposes?