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LinkedIn appears to be the premier site for connecting job-seekers with job openings, teeming with recruiters and detailed job postings. Therefore I puzzle over why it is so difficult to actually perform job searches there.

Entering some job title or technology into the search field yields thousands of non-specific results, most of which are labeled "promoted."

Entering a term surrounded by quotes finds only jobs with that specific term in the job title.

Say I wanted to find a product management job that oversees telephony products. Entering "product manager" and "telephony" produces nothing. Removing the quotes from "telephony" brings up every product manager job in the platform. How does this work?

Having been subjected to a few "hackathons" so far in my career, I've come to the conclusion that they are a lame distraction, usually put on by C-suite people or vendors but resulting in very little usable output considering the amount of time and effort engineers put in.

I want to like hackathons, because at the core, the idea seems to be good: let's get down and dirty with some interesting ideas or tech that we haven't had the time to work on due to other commitments, and see what kind of great thing bubbles up. But I have never seen it.

Asking HN: have you ever seen a really great outcome from a hackathon?