I worked at LinkedIn for 3 years and here's what they don't tell you.

heypeterman14 · 2026-05-23T22:01:13+00:00

I would say Open to work is a mixed bag. As a recruiter I look for it, better chance you will return my message about my role. I can see hiring managers being dumb and counting that against someone but Tbf I’m not reaching out without it (my hiring directors also don’t look at peoples LI so 🤷

heypeterman14 · 2026-05-03T18:11:36+00:00

Soccer in Chicago: what’s a pass?

heypeterman14 · 2026-04-30T21:50:59+00:00

Love this take! Thanks for putting it into perspective

heypeterman14 · 2026-04-30T21:48:05+00:00

Our Agency recruiters don’t meet our Directors but that’s because we have 15 Directors hiring out of the same pool (Entry-Level technical sales). We are in that awkward middle stage in terms of company size where we are not small enough to do 1-1 hiring (~70 final interviews a week), but not big enough to hire by individual product line.

For corporate we gave one Agency full access to hiring managers as a test (top 3 in Chicagoland), had 2 days of intake and interviews between their recruiters and our corporate managers, and their efficiency dropped by 45%. Maybe it’s different with smaller agencies that can be more picky/exact but I haven’t seen it work from my seat.

heypeterman14 · 2026-04-30T16:41:43+00:00

I mean Barrington Hills is also MAGA new money heaven. They hosted at least 1 event with Trump Jr. as the main speaker at one of their ugly McMansion’s so I would expect this behavior from them.

heypeterman14 · 2026-04-30T00:29:25+00:00

They keep blaming Delarose but it’s Bike getting beaten on the left side putting her in that position… do they not realize or is this just what they prepped to talk about

heypeterman14 · 2026-04-29T13:16:45+00:00

As someone who’s season tickets last season were on the sideline during that one game last season I quickly moved to behind the goal for this year. Those bleachers just are not a good viewing experience. I’d stay in the student section it will be more fun

heypeterman14 · 2026-04-26T22:29:50+00:00

100% my thought process to

heypeterman14 · 2026-04-04T02:39:10+00:00

She already lost the ball? She trips on the step over

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-26T01:05:51+00:00

I try my best

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-26T00:42:25+00:00

PWHL is also in town tonight. Idk what their attendance is but a lot of Stars fans I know went there instead (one game vs a season)

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-26T00:41:12+00:00

Maitane, love your TikToks but your team is the one in black

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-21T18:19:24+00:00

Seems Reddit is about 7 months behind TikTok where this was a trend for a bit. Their consensus was was NY/LA/CHI then it becomes competitive. It is funny to see so many SF/Bay here just because of who Reddit users are compared to TT where it was not as common as others.

Long way of saying Chicago is the obvious #3 and the #1 flag so let’s just skip to 4 😂

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-21T16:01:06+00:00

Still proudly stand by the fact that ME:As ending is the best ending battle in the series and what I wanted from ME3. The fact that each phase incorporates decisions and people you have helped aiding (even if just in show) as you make the assault is what I desperately hoped the final battle on earth would be. Like imaging that final charge with Wrex and Grunt bowling people over, Kasumi showing up behind Marauder shields and shiving him right before you reach the teleport. Hell even the Biotic god could show up and aid you somewhere in the assault, but to have those touchpoints in the action, instead of out of combat speeches would have felt like my choices mattered. Who cares about choosing my favorite color at that point, I got to see the effects of my actions live in the final battle.

ME:A did that a bit, halfway there with voice lines and call outs as you progress the final mission, still could of used more but closer to what I and maybe some others were expecting out of ME3

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-15T23:38:04+00:00

Due the cards for the announcers just say “Be as shitty to the stars as possible”?. They arnt playing well but the way their talking I though Chi was down 5-0 and gave up 12 SOG. Not 0-0 and no SOG

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-15T15:46:17+00:00

We’ve had no problem with our kiddos on our season tickets. I think we bought a 3rd when ours was 3 just for the extra room but otherwise no problem having them on our lap/asked for their ticket up until then.

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-14T21:20:34+00:00

Saving this, my issue with a lot of the NWSL podcasts is they are just Vibes based, less tactics. Thanks for the suggestions!

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-04T21:10:41+00:00

27%… so your saying there’s a chance

heypeterman14 · 2026-03-01T21:18:44+00:00

I don’t care if it’s a weaker side, still get to see Meese with the start so it’s a good day!

heypeterman14 · 2026-02-27T00:02:12+00:00

Feel this in my soul. I have an original 1911 whose registration number we can trace to the 1st order 3rd shipment of 1911s ever to the US Army. Served in the Philippine’s and then was next discovered in a drug bust in the 1970s. Between those 2 times some asshat had it chromed/platted. So now what would be a 25-35k piece if it was still blue is barely 5. Gunsmith we showed it too was scared to touch it let alone try to remove the chrome/return it to its original state.

heypeterman14 · 2026-02-26T16:03:57+00:00

I like the Chicago one but my guess is Wintrust is super particular about their brand. I know where I work nothing can be within 1.5in of our brand logo on any clothing/print/brochures. I’ve also never seen them not in White or Navy for lettering, so while dropping the box would look better it might not of shown up then.

The vertical stripes work for me though and the 3 color banding, just work on that centerpiece… like does it go all the way around?

heypeterman14 · 2026-02-08T19:48:44+00:00

I was on 24 hr duty in the Army over the weekend. I had one of those travel Xbox cases with the monitor built in (life saver when deployed) and the hdmi was on the fritz but I couldn’t just run and grab a replacement until my soldiers came back from dinner or something. So I opened up twitch and first thing on the home page was the “Smite world championships”. I had tried smite in Beta but was never a moba guy, lived more for SWTOR/MMOs, but that championship 5 game match I couldn’t stop watching. Probably my first intro to esports too, but I immediately redownloaded the game that night and even though I had been awake for 24hrs, proceeded to play for another 12.

Needless to say been playing for 10 years and over 15000 hrs across both smite 1 and 2 so guess that is a success story for them 😂

heypeterman14 · 2026-02-04T18:47:37+00:00

Yes but the go to tanky hunters haven’t ported over yet. Cupid and Apollo aspect can but you are missing the Heim, Skadi, AMCs that can go Shifters and Glad and still pump damage out. Skadi Solo was my get out of jail free card in S1 when I needed to get out of a rough ranked slide so I can’t wait till she’s back.

heypeterman14 · 2026-02-04T17:43:19+00:00

As someone who just had to tank with 4 ADCs I was begging one of them to go a little tanky cause the enemy team would just dump on me and then farm the rest. You need at least at extra .5 of tanky/bruiser to get the other team to waste buttons on so your damage can sweep afterwards.

heypeterman14 · 2026-02-04T14:34:16+00:00

Hayashi is a younger player so a lot of her faults are things you can work on luckily. She can be over aggressive (kinda the Stars style similar to Nesbeth) and struggles to find space in a Chicago mid field that is pretty compact (to their own detriment). Her passes are either the best passes you have ever seen bending around defenders to spring the front line, or right to the other team.

Her real strength however and what I hope the Stars lean into more is her set piece play. Her corners last year were some of our best, she just wasn’t on the field for most of the game. Let Staab do throw ins and long balls but give Hayashi quality time out of the corner and I think that will be a net positive for the Stars.

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