LinkedIn Reviews 3,636

I have been on Linked in for about four weeks (after being on for years when I was in employment).
So far I have been barred twice. The first time took a week to get back in, and this second time is 10 days and counting.
So I decided to leave but here's the problem; you can only leave feedback or contact them from inside the site.
Many years ago, LinkedIn had a purpose. Now it's just a sales site with opportunities for lazy recruiters.
Avoid like the plague - find another way to connect with people because this site is now just a scam site. It must be because I cannot exercise my legal right to be forgotten because I cannot contact them.

The app requests the level of permissions and identification equal to FBI or NASA. I provide everything, go through all the hassle, only to be instantly blocked when i added a wrong visa card as term of payment. Then I had to recognise images to prove I am not a robot. Images were so bad that I couldn't even find A BUS in all of them - just unreal.
So the struggle went on, and I finally managed to provide necessary info (again my government ID card front and back and all other bshit). It should be illegal for apps to require that level of access to our personal data.

After all that, now I am waiting up to 48h to be able to log in to my account, maybe. Because who knows, everything is possible. Total trash.

I'm a former Sales Nav user (ALWAYS with monthly subscribership) and was offered a free month trial last month.

Silly me realized that I had forgotten to cancel ahead of the end of the free trial, and realized that Linkedin SCAMMED me by billing me $1000+ for a FULL YEAR subscription.

I told customer support I would be fine paying for the month of June since I forgot to cancel, but that I have never been a yearly member and would like to switch to monthly instead of annual, and they told me "sorry, we sent one single email letting you know your free trial is ending and you've logged into LinkedIn since so you're on the hook for the full year"

Absolutely astonishing that LinkedIn's business model is to bait small business owners into a free month trial in order to get a full year's subscription.

Horrible, unethical company that basically told me to go F myself when I explained that I had forgotten to cancel by mistake. Insane the reality of corporate America these days is manipulating everyday Americans into bs subscriptions they don't want "for the bottom line."

My parents spent thousands of dollars on LinkedIn Learning so I could get a good job at a Fortune 500 company. I felt sad seeing my parents money fly away to LinkedIn, but still believed this could be extremely useful to me.

I graduated a few weeks ago. I decided to apply for jobs at massive companies, using my LinkedIn courses as credentials. I saw vile jobs for fake companies, like “lebron foot licker” and “indict democrats”, but I still applied at companies like Microsoft, apple, and Google over 200 times.

Days turned into weeks as I waited for a response. Finally, after 3 weeks, I got a message. 200 of them, in fact. All but two got rejected. The reason? AI took all of them. The only ones that accepted me were McDonald’s and the “lebron foot licker” I jokingly applied for.

It is nice experience and got job by using it

I intended to use LinkedIn as a core pillar for launching my new business, planning to pay for Premium and run paid ads. I have built an organic following of 3.7k over several years.
Unfortunately, while planning my strategy, I made the mistake of following an influencer’s advice and briefly connected an automated outreach tool. Realizing the risk, I disconnected it almost immediately. However, this triggered an algorithmic penalty. Overnight, my post impressions plummeted from 2,000–7,000 down to just 17–30 views. My content isn't even being shown to my own followers.
When I reached out to LinkedIn customer service, I was completely gaslit. I provided clear data showing the sudden drop, yet support relied entirely on canned FAQ responses, denying that anything was wrong and insulting my intelligence by claiming it was simply "poor quality content." For context, the exact same data-rich, well-researched content gets 10k–50k impressions on X, but gets throttled to under 30 views on LinkedIn. Even independent AI analysis of my metrics confirmed a standard "trust/safety jail" restriction.
What is most frustrating is that LinkedIn’s support team is clearly instructed to stonewall users instead of investigating legitimate algorithmic errors. I am a legitimate business owner with an advertising budget, but I refuse to spend a single penny on Premium or ads while my organic reach is being falsely throttled.
Meanwhile, my actual feed is overrun with low-effort, borderline inappropriate selfies with loose business captions, while genuine, data-rich industry insights are completely suppressed. Absolutely terrible customer experience.

I created an account to apply for a jobs and I didn't get verified nor did I put up a profile photo I'd assume that's the reason for restricting my account and after applying for a few jobs I didn't use the platform for some time and then I went to go and make some updates to my account only to find out that I was restricted and it took me 2 months to get them to actually check to see if my account is up to standard with their community and it turned out that it isn't and they didn't specify why. They did not stay why I was not in compliance with your community however all I did was just created an account and applied for jobs. I would say that LinkedIn is more than just a waste of time it is an option you go to when you actually don't need help finding a job.

LinkedIn is a scam artist. They bombard you with offers for a free trial premium period and then don't remind you when the offer is about to expire. Other large companies like Booking.com will actively remind you when they are about to make a charge on your card. It is unacceptable that LinkedIn do not do the same. They then make it very difficult to get a refund if you have "used premium features" like who has viewed your profile. This feature is regularly available in the non-premium version. I have now deleted my account permanently, and I will not be returning.

Full of technical issues all the time. Trying to edit something takes forever. You try and engage on a post and the comment button won’t present properly. Of course, there is no way of reporting this at the time, so all you can do is lose the post you typed and miss the opportunity to network, which LinkedIn purports is what it’s for. A communication tool with a company you can’t communicate with.

HOW TO DISABLE SUGGESTED POSTS?
No one has asked for them. I don't want to see them. I want to things from people I follow, not some random garbage.

The entire platform has been going down the enshitification path for quite some time now and it's honestly quite sad to see and infuriating.

I cancelled my premium subscription of paying £39.99 a month purely so I can set it up on my work card after they agreed to pay the £39.99 a month for me.

When I went to set it back up my only options for the same membership were to pay £64 a month or pay 12 months up front to get the £39.99 a month.

I contacted them to ask them to honour the £39.99 a month as this was purely an admin change from my side and was told no.

Really poor that they have taken advantage of me changing my card to increase to by £25 a month.

By far the worst ID verification system I have ever encountered. I completed a similar process with another platform on the first try, but LinkedIn has kept me stuck for days. I’ve tried 42 times, switched devices, cleared caches, and followed every troubleshooting step in their handbook, yet I still cannot verify my identity.

To make matters worse, support is completely incompetent. Every email I get from them is just a copy-paste of a help article I’ve already tried. They don’t read the tickets, they don’t escalate issues as promised, and they don't seem to care that their "technical" issues are actively blocking users from building their presence on the platform. Avoid this process if you can.

Never sign up with this. nonsense of company! I tried to delete my account, and already this procedure is extremely time consuming. they ask you first to reset the email. then on delete account there is no eye (see password) feature, so you can't see what you are typing. finally once apparatently you manage to delete your account, they keep sending email. if you click even by mistake on the email content they AUTOMATICALLY REACTIVATE your account, and they start sending even more emails! this is a total violation of GDPR laws. Someone should sue this shtty company in class action.

what a nightmare...after 10 years the whole platform has shut me out.....have tried everything to get access.....do not use linked in as part of your business efforts as this will happen to you one day......I lost everything.....

Problem is there is no human to deal with.......

Money grabbing app. Instead of helping me find employment and earn a salary, it just makes me lose money instead.

LinkedIn restricts accounts with no warning and don’t tell why they are restricted.

I have been trapped in a corporate customer service nightmare with LinkedIn Marketing Solutions for over three weeks. Because of a simple, automated billing decline on a $110.40 ad boost, LinkedIn's backend software hard-locked my dashboard into a "Not Active" status.

I want to pay them. My card is active and ready. But their broken online system won't process it, and their front-line support staff is entirely incompetent.

Over the last 21 days, my ticket has been passed around between three different agents (Gration, Priscilla, and Abdul) who clearly do not read the account history. They keep blindly copy-pasting the exact same generic troubleshooting scripts, blaming my bank, and demanding I extract developer "HAR files" just to settle a basic invoice.

Even after providing explicit, written authorization for their technical team to access my account and clear the block, they continue to circle in loops, give contradictory instructions that break my ad status further, and refuse to escalate the issue to a supervisor.

LinkedIn is actively disrupting my business marketing and holding my account hostage over a glitch on their own platform. Three weeks. Three agents. Zero resolution. Unacceptable.

Honestly, overall dissapointed. In my years of using it, I gave up. It just feels like a scam at this point. No matter how you make your profile better and how much experience you have, it's just never good enough, and the amount of notifications you get is insane. Just absolutely horrible.

I have been on LinkedIn for over 20 years, and unfortunately, my experience has been disappointing when it comes to career advancement and finding meaningful, high-quality job opportunities. While the platform is marketed as a place to build professional connections and grow careers, I have found that it often feels ineffective and overly saturated. Despite investing significant time networking, maintaining my profile, and engaging with content, it has not produced the level of professional opportunities I expected. In my experience, there are other platforms and direct networking approaches that have been more productive and valuable for securing legitimate career growth and quality employment opportunities.

Don't listen to or work for LinkedIn LinkedIn. They can't even fix account lockout issues. I have lost access to the credentials. Automated recovery has failed multiple times. I am requesting the permanent deletion of my personal data under POPIA/data privacy rights.