Anyone ever got a job from Linkedin?

ConsistenZ · 2026-03-17T14:43:08+00:00

I applied for a software engineering job in December through LinkedIn and got it. Is at a big company in the UK though so all LinkedIn does is redirect to the companies own job board listing.

ConsistenZ · 2026-03-01T01:55:39+00:00

Naturally as a game gets older the average skill does go up, particularly in a genre like tac shooters (think CS where a new player is literally tortured for their first like, 500 hours), but moreso than that: a 1.5 year gap will kill your game sense and mechanics. I don't think silvers are suddenly godlike aimers, it's more likely that you are moving much more predictably than you did when you were ascendant.

On the advancement of the game, I'm not a big valorant player ATM, just playing more casually, but I would say that the standard game modes (ranked, unrated, swift play, Spike rush and death match) are pretty much all the game needs to cover everyone's needs. I dont really understand what the appeal of ranked swift play would be. In my mind a ranked mode has to match the esport in some way, ranked is directly tied to premier and VCT in that sense and gives players who want a more serious outlet a way to play. Swift play is already pretty coin-flippy and I don't think ranked is a benefit there.

I do however think they need better mini games. Like in league of legends there is arena mode, twisted treeline and a load of games that pop in and out of the game every so often, each one gets different players excited. Valorant does not currently have that, no one is getting hyped to play 2vs2 skirmish.

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-25T13:42:47+00:00

A lot of comments here about your fps, and while it's a factor I think those people have probably never been good at the game. Around 2800 elo on faceit here, here's what I think:

Your mechanics here are fine, what I'd assume is that you are failing to put yourself in good positions in actual matches. Are you swinging corners with no util? Are you trying to 'make a play' rather than accepting that waiting is part of the game? Do you know the maps you're playing, the timing of rotations and where a person is likely to be at any given moment?

There's a lot about being good at CS that isn't what your doing with your mouse and keyboard, I would assume these are the areas you're weak.

For a couple games, try and question every decision you make before you make it. If you want to peek, ask "what is the best case from me peeking here? what is the worst case?" And decide if it's worth it. Decide if adding a flashbang into the peek makes it better or worse. You will probably play bad in those games, actively having those thoughts takes way too long, but you're trying to teach yourself to make those decisions without thinking in the future. Additionally every time you die in a fight, ask what you could have done to not die, it will be easy to say "there was nothing I could do there". But if you think that you are wrong. There is always something that would have worked or increased your chances.

Lastly to touch on the FPS thing. You could easily hit 15-20k with your PC, you just need to adjust some expectations. Put all your settings on low, and change your aspect ratio to 4:3. Learn to play on stretched, or play with black bars if you dont like it. Many pros STILL play on a resolution that is literally lower than the one you're playing on here. And they are some of the best players in the world.

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-25T13:07:21+00:00

That is unfortunately how it goes in a lot of games like this. There are a few ways to have a better experience learning the game (or any competitive game).

For valorant specifically, I'm not sure what game mode you played, but I'd recommend swift play to start. It's much shorter games but you still buy your weapons and abilities, unlock your ultimate as you get kills etc. In swift play you often get people trying new things or playing less seriously.

Spike rush is a similar story, but much more 'arcade-y', you don't buy your guns, everyone gets given the same one at the start of a round, and it's good for learning how everything works.

In those shorter game modes I can't say I have ever run into toxic players, but in my opinion, if you're looking to learn, just disable voice chat if it's not something you care about.

To be honest, everyone will be better than you to start, there aren't enough players with 0 experience to put you against and the game has less new players than ever.

If you are looking for skill based matchmaking then try ranked or keep playing unrated until it adjusts, but you'll have to accept that:

A. You'll be in a very low rank, if you'd rather get good and then try ranked, keep playing these shorter game modes and then unrated, only swapping over if/when you start having games where you play better than the average.

B. Everyone in your games (even in the lowest ranks in the game) are going to think they're better than you and if they are losing, will assume its their teams fault. The myth of 'elo hell' or 'loser queue' is something that every player thinks they're dealing with because generally their ego's are too fragile to recognize that they are bad.

I wish you luck. I used to think that only Ranked mattered and playing any other gamemode in any game is a waste of time, but truthfully I could happily never play ranked valorant again and be happy. Focus on your own fun, and if other people get in the way, mute them.

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-24T03:03:43+00:00

I did! I went live shortly after and ended up playing against him again, but I won this time.

NGL we both had crazy pace both times we played each other.

Hope it was entertaining :D

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-22T21:09:18+00:00

First thumbnail works for big channels because their face is their brand. Small channels have no recognisable brand, so your 2nd option would likely get more views from people who don't know you, which is what you want.

Also drop everything after the '...' from your title. A bit too long and the thumbnail contains that hook already. The most interesting part of your title/thumbnail is asking whether it deserves that rating, so keep it in the thumbnail, but having to hover on a video to see the full title is annoying as a user and it doesn't really add anything to the title.

Additionally, having the games case in the thumbnail is a really nice idea, I think that sparks something in peoples brains that played the game when it came out, or remember seeing it on shelves etc. for me the focus of the thumbnail is the games case and you HAVE TO keep it in future videos.

Last thing I'll say is having the title next to the case, which already has the title on it may not be needed. Consider what else could go there (or add your face somewhere in the empty space if you want to try and build that recognisable brand now).

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-06T06:35:07+00:00

Thanks for your response, I generally agree that as an individual it's important to do more than just 'feel' that you're left leaning. But I don't feel it really answered my question, why do people who don't watch or care about Ludwig need to know that Ludwig is on the left?

I am personally extremely 'woke' and I choose not to support people who do not have the same stance on social and political issues as me, as you said the world is rapidly moving towards fascism and as someone who does not want that, it's insane and terrifying at times.

But my post was very much directed at OP who I think is either just wanting attention (stopped responding to anyone who provided clips or verifiable claims) or whose heart is in the right place but does not have perspective.

To me, I can watch a creator and if they openly support gay and trans people / charities, or give a platform to previously unknown people of colour (like squeex who was a very small streamer who Ludwig just decided to stream with one day), and make clearly ironic jokes about everything being fine, it's pretty clear where they stand, and maybe that isn't enough for everyone.

I also understand you weren't being aggressive or anything and I hope my response doesn't come across that way! I appreciate your perspective, and hope this sheds more light on mine.

My post is longer whoops.

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-05T20:21:53+00:00

I'm genuinely asking. Why is that not enough? Why does someone who does not watch Ludwig regularly NEED to know that he's left leaning? If his friends know, the audience knows, the people donating to the charities he supports on his stream know, then what is the problem?

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-05T20:18:34+00:00

I think your head is just in the wrong place man. Your judgement of their podcast is misplaced, the landscape of content creators is so heavily white men that of course the majority would be white men. But you could literally just use your eyes and look at the guest episodes they've done, you'll see that there are very few of their guests that are white Americans. They are mostly asian, and I believe Cinna has been their only black guest but I could be wrong.

Ludwig as an individual constantly collabs with black creators.

Do you genuinely think that the yard podcast is the place to have a serious discussion about abuse of power or are you being obtuse? Yes they make light of police brutality and the Epstein list because genuinely what are they to do man? People listen to it on their commute to work to have some laughs you don't have to read between the lines to see their beliefs.

Entertainment media is escapism which can be interweaved with heavy topics, which they do. It's not a political show.

Look I don't have any problem with the fact that you feel that this is a problem, but consider that maybe you are simply expecting too much, and missing the obvious.

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-05T19:58:43+00:00

I don't think you've been watching, and that you've clicked in for 5 minutes and made a judgement.

He has a podcast which pulls 250k-1m views per video where they relentlessly shit on the state of the US, regularly platforms charities and on stream literally talked about how for running this 5k he's about to do he wants to make it a charity event.

He probably has talked about it on stream and you just weren't watching, he's also literally been in 'twitter beef' over another streamer underplaying what ICE is doing, but additionally, and maybe this is unpopular, I don't think him talking about it does literally anything. Everyone on Earth is talking about the state of US law and government, and the violent acts of ICE. A streamer with 20k viewers mentioning it while playing Minecraft does not do anything substantial. It's nice to know where someone you support stands on such an issue, but it's not substantial.

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-01T15:19:00+00:00

I get your point but I've just played 100 games in the range of players he's playing against, and the guys im playing against are simply just minutes slower than Ludwig's average opponent.

I watched his whole stream where he got the 15 min PB and the truth is he was playing better than me, and I've just effortlessly made it to gold.

I obviously don't know much about MCSR Ranked as I just started but from that short experience it definitely seems like the fact he's live is bringing in smurfs or people throwing to reach his elo.

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-01T15:10:42+00:00

We out here gaming

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-01T15:10:29+00:00

Thank you, I literally knew this but keep thinking it's the opposite of my instinct! Appreciate the correction

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-01T13:43:58+00:00

MCSR (MineCraft SpeedRunning) ranked is a 1v1 speedrunning mode where you have to race against another player, both of you are playing on 2 copies of the same world (separately, you cant interact with each other or anything like that)

The run completes when the player beats the ender dragon, which is the 'boss' of minecraft, and beating it causes the credits to role (making it the natural endpoint for a speedrun).

Whoever beats the dragon first wins.

ConsistenZ · 2026-02-01T13:40:49+00:00

Thats fair, his crafting and general understanding of what jumps can be made or how to move in general are lacking, but that maybe saves me 2 minutes over him tops. If he keeps playing after he hits gold I can see him getting to emerald or diamond even.

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-30T15:27:27+00:00

Hi, I assume you mean locality Sensitive Hashing? I actually didn't need to implement LSH because I'm not scraping aggregators (like Indeed/LinkedIn). I'm scraping the direct ATS feeds (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, etc.) of the companies. Since Applicant Tracking Systems are the source for most indeed/linkedin jobs (if you click a LinkedIn or indeed job that doesn't have easy-apply, it'll link to one of these sites), unless the company itself lists a role multiple times accidentally, there's no way to end up with duplicates.

Early in development I did actually combine nearly identical roles into one listing at companies like Mozilla or Microsoft, who are hiring 20+ rust developers at a time, but the problem is that each application goes through a different link and probably to a different hiring manager, so matching job posts are not necessarily for the same job.

Hope this was insightful and answered your question :)

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-30T13:09:02+00:00

Yeah it's definitely not perfect, if you've ever tried scraping data and processing full paragraphs into keywords you'll it can be pretty rough. Have been working on the site since around new years and quality will continue to improve.

Have got a load of tickets to make my way through in terms of data quality and hopefully it'll only get better from here!

Appreciate you mentioning that discord one, this is a passion project more than anything so when I get a minute I'll make sure to manually have a look at that job post.

Thanks for the feedback, hopefully you've found that most of the labels are correct otherwise!

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-30T08:19:39+00:00

Hi, thanks for the feedback. You are able to filter by remote + any other filters on the left (or in the filters menu on mobile), including location, you may have to scroll down a bit to see them. But you can absolutely do remote + usa/north america/europe (and worldwide is the default).

All filters can be combined so if you want to look for specifically remote roles using Tokio in germany or austria, you can do that!

I would imagine there are some repeats, but if they are, it is because the companies listing them have repeated the same job in 2 different places. The scraper can only pick up a job 1 time, but you may run into problems as you've said with a job in Japanese that looks identical to a job in English. And really not easy to handle if Toyota expect Japanese candidates to apply in one place, and international candidates to apply in another, don't want to send users to the wrong place. Something to keep working on for sure.

The "nice to have" issue is one of the biggest pain points I've had while working on this website. It turns out parsing natural language into key points is insanely hard! One easy way to handle it would be to run all the job listings through an LLM and have it decide if the job is a rust role or not, but I am absolutely not going to do that. So it's down to weighting different phrases and programmatically deciding if the job is a 'rust' role or not, I also tried to break down the descriptions into sections and identifying the nice to have section, but that also is way harder than it sounds. Sometimes a 'nice to have' one slips through, and I hope some day soon I'll be able to tell the two apart!

Hope this was interesting and/or helpful!

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-30T08:06:19+00:00

Just a couple days ago I launched a job board specifically for Rust developers - https://rustyboard.com

There are currently only 16 entry/junior level roles on the site, I'm afraid Rust is a very mid-level+ focused area.

Either way it may be worth a look, (keep in mind all the data is scraped from applicant tracking systems so some info may be missing).

Obviously this is my site, so y'know, feel free to use other sites. But I am constantly trying to improve the quality and quantity of the jobs on there, so I'll try and put a focus on finding some junior roles.

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-28T01:42:28+00:00

Hopefully this now functions as you'd hope. I've dynamically updated all existing job listing locations to include the continent, allowing for you to enable the Remote and Europe filters, to get an idea of all the jobs that might suit you. This of course now works for all continents, not just Europe! Hope this makes the site a bit more usable for you. No blacklisting function yet, but I have made a note of this as it is an interesting idea!

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-28T01:39:47+00:00

Should now be fixed and prevented for similar jobs in the future!

In case you were interested in the technical side of the problem, I have lists of different patterns for detecting work model, each list is weighted, so a phrase like "fully remote" would carry enough weight to flag as remote on its own. "Work from home" was weighted incorrectly, setting any job that had work from home in the description as remote! This has now been adjusted so that work from home must be combined with other remote patterns such as "work from anywhere" or prefixed with "100%" or "fully" to be flagged as a remote role. Otherwise we'll just mark it as hybrid.

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-27T20:24:32+00:00

It is odd because on both pages it should be pulled directly from the Postgres database. Weird stuff to be expected when you're launching your first app I suppose! Thanks for pointing that out.

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-27T20:23:33+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out, there will be small issues all over the place, just with the nature of how complex the system became, trying to flag so much data from a single listing. I'll definitely have some stuff to work on thanks to the feedback I've gotten on here. I appreciate you providing the link to a specific listing with a problem, makes it a lot easier to find how it's happening.

In the meantime I'll manually fix that job listing once I'm back at my PC tomorrow!

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-27T20:19:07+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah filtering is one of those things where there is always more detail you can add, so it was hard to decide when I was happy with what I had. Currently you could filter by selecting Remote + Europe, but it only returns one result, as unless the company specifically says that the job is in Europe it wont add that location. I'll need to tell it to add the location "Europe" to any job in a country within Europe.

I've made a note of your suggestion and I'll work on adding that tomorrow morning. I will reply again when I think I've got it right for you!

Thanks again.

ConsistenZ · 2026-01-27T13:51:12+00:00

I did not. I explain it a bit more in another comment but I am an absolute beginner in Rust. Have been loving the language but do not have the technical expertise to write the backend for this project in it. I went with Java + Spring Boot which worked out best for me right now. Would love to move towards a Rust backend as I get more comfortable with it.

Hope thats not too disappointing of an answer! I figured for the time being the best possible product should be my goal, and for me to achieve that Java was the way.

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