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LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
Co- Authors: Aditya Hedge and Saumi Bandyopadhyay
2022 was a year driven by change for the Talent Acquisition industry, with nearly 50k company mergers and acquisitions completed worldwide. As of November 2023, roughly 150K+ recruiters switched jobs in the previous 12 months as shown in Figure 1. These changes – whether at an organization level or a user level – result in ownership transfers of hiring entities.
Figure 1: Talent pool report for recruiters - LinkedIn Talent Insights
During mergers and acquisitions, the source company’s user licenses and data are transferred to ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
LinkedIn is always working hard to make sure that its platform is a safe and trusted place for its members. We've been on a journey to strengthen our platform against abuse by continuously improving our account restriction systems. This helps us ensure that our policies are followed and that our community can keep growing.
In a previous blog post, we talked about how we built our anti-abuse platform using CASAL. This powerful system is our first line of defense against bad actors and adversarial attacks. In this blog post, we'll go deeper into how we manage account restrictions. We'll ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
(This article originally appeared on LinkedIn)
Advancements in AI consumed our attention and drove massive business considerations in 2023. Seemingly overnight, Generative AI (GAI) went mainstream – quickly becoming more deeply embedded across organizations and in everyone’s day-to-day work. Executives recognize the potential value GAI can bring to their organizations with 74% seeing at least one way it will benefit their employees, according to our September 2023 U.S. Executive Confidence Index.
For engineering leaders, the focus in 2024 will be on how to best harness the poten ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
Co-Authors: Shubham Agarwal and Rishi Gupta
At LinkedIn, we work every day to deliver a safe and trusted experience for our members and customers. A key part of this work is our content abuse defense systems, which function behind the scenes to help detect and remove policy-violating content from the platform, while helping surface professional, relevant, and meaningful content that adds value to the member experience. We rigorously invest in enhancing these defense systems, which are a foundational pillar to maintaining member trust and safety and delivering a positive member exp ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
At LinkedIn, trust is the cornerstone for building meaningful connections and professional relationships. Our members rely on us to create an environment on our platform where they can safely learn and grow in their careers. As part of this responsibility, we are constantly looking for innovative ways to prevent policy-violating behavior such as harassment, spamming, fake accounts, and other activities that undermine the positive and respectful interactions our community strives to uphold. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, machine learning algorithms, and a dedicated team, we remain ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
Authors: Ryan Rogers, Subbu Subramaniam, Lin Xu
Contributors: Mark Cesar, Praveen Chaganlal, Xinlin Zhou, Jefferson Lai, Jennifer Li, Stephanie Chung, Margaret Taormina, Gavin Uathavikul, Laura Chen, Rahul Tandra, Siyao Sun, Vinyas Maddi, Shuai Zhang
Content creators post on LinkedIn with the goal of reaching and engaging specific audiences. Post analytics helps creators measure their post performance overall and with specific viewer demographics, so they can better understand what resonates and refine their content strategies. The number of impressions on each post shows ho ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
Co-Authors: Shweta Patira, Ankan Saha, Yilin Li, and Manas Somaiya
Earlier this year, we launched Collaborative Articles with the vision of making LinkedIn the one-stop destination for all work-related questions. Among our 1 billion members, there are seasoned experts who have encountered every conceivable workplace problem. If we could present their thoughts on LinkedIn, then mentors, experts, and coaches would be right at our members' fingertips. So we set off to make that happen. Rather than following the traditional Q&A path for gathering perspectives, we embarked on a slightly ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
(This article originally appeared on LinkedIn)
Advancements in AI are already starting to transform jobs, skills, and career paths, and we know that our members and customers are thinking about the implications for this new world of work. That’s why I’m excited to share that we’re rolling out a new AI-powered LinkedIn Premium experience, starting with a selected group of US based Premium subscribers today. These members will see AI-powered takeaways on the platform to help them unlock hidden opportunities, from how to get more knowledgeable about important topics, to what actions to take to ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
Authors: Bingfeng Xia and Xinyu Liu
Background
At LinkedIn, Apache Beam plays a pivotal role in stream processing infrastructures that process over 4 trillion events daily through more than 3,000 pipelines across multiple production data centers. This robust framework empowers near real-time data processing for critical services and platforms, ranging from machine learning and notifications to anti-abuse AI modeling. With over 950 million members, ensuring that our platform is running smoothly is critical to connecting members to opportunities worldwide.
In this case study, LinkedIn's ..read more
LinkedIn Engineering Blog
1y ago
Co-Authors: Chaitali Parmar, Eric Stoll, and Natasha Michel
At Linkedin, one of the Information Security team's core commitments is to enable an environment of trusted and secure products, platforms, and infrastructure for our employees, members, and customers. The Infosec Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Third Party Security (TPS) teams are responsible for documenting security policy and monitoring in-house and third party risk and control environments to assure compliance and a healthy risk awareness and risk appetite, which is the amount of risk that one is willing to accept in ..read more