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		maxaf on Dec 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info > I verify the data with LinkedIn profiles Lost me right there. Good luck with that. LinkedIn is notoriously a garbage dump of spam, recruiters and fake profiles. That’s on top of the fact that most people (myself included) don’t have a LinkedIn profile to begin with in order to curb spam.

waterlink on Dec 20, 2019 [–]

What do you think would be an alternative tool to verify that people enter real job titles, company names and location?

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