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A Reddit post calling LinkedIn "cringe" and its content "fake and superficial" has struck a nerve — and the thread's responses suggest the platform's reputation among job seekers has never been lower.

A job seeker laid off for the second time in three years has sent 700 applications, had 20 interviews, and is now paying their mortgage from investments while facing the possibility of losing their home. Reddit's response was honest.

A post on Reddit's r/jobs has cut against the grain of most job market threads by making a statistical argument for applying anyway — and the responses from people who have actually been hired in competitive pools suggest it is not wrong.

Her résumé includes double majors in Social Work and Criminal Justice, minors in Sociology, fluency in French, German and English, and more than 200 hours of volunteering.

After HR asked him to apply through the company's system, however, a week passed before he was told the company was “going a different direction”.

A hiring manager's LinkedIn post revealing 500 applications for one job opening has gone viral on Reddit, with commenters from the other side of the hiring desk confirming the numbers are even worse than that, and AI agents are making it harder for everyone.

A Senior Software Quality Engineer with 25 years at Adobe has gone viral after announcing he is starting over as a school bus driver after a year of being ghosted, filtered out, and discriminated against by the tech industry he gave his career to.

A viral Reddit post suggesting unemployed job seekers should stop applying and start a company together has struck a nerve, and the comments range from deadpan humour to a genuinely thoughtful proposal for decentralised worker organisations.

A Reddit post arguing that younger workers aren't lazy but are simply doing math that no longer adds up has resonated widely — with mid-career workers adding that the promised rewards of hard work have vanished for multiple generations, not just the youngest.

A job seeker who asked for a sign-on bonus after seeing a disappointing benefits package has been shamed by their recruiter for bad timing, and Reddit says the recruiter is wrong on every count.

People with years of experience say they are now applying for entry-level roles alongside recent graduates, making an already difficult first step into the workforce even harder.

The US national debt has reached about $39.9 trillion.

Another applicant with 15 years of experience said only three of 200 applications resulted in interviews.

A currently employed worker’s “Monday rant” about building side income and pursuing entrepreneurship has raised questions about whether self-employment can really offer an escape from an increasingly unstable job market.

A product manager in telecoms who has been out of work for seven months is asking Reddit how many others are in the same boat. The responses from workers in their 40s suggest the answer is: more than anyone wants to admit.