7 flagged issues verified: a fake LinkedIn Workforce Report stat (20%/10%/38%/15%) and a fake Gartner survey stat (500 HR leaders, 62%) were both softened; a quote attributed to GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij had no locatabl…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
1 flagged claim verified: a 'Levels.fyi data shows... 40-60%' stat misattributed a specific acceptance-rate study to Levels.fyi (a self-reported compensation database, not a research firm publishing such studies) and wa…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
5 flagged claims verified: a quote attributed to Will Larson had a FABRICATED career history (claimed Google/Amazon/Facebook and CTO of Calm) -- verified his real background is Yahoo, Digg, SocialCode, Uber, Stripe, and…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
2 flagged issues reviewed: an anonymous 'Site Reliability Engineer' anecdote with implausibly precise engagement numbers (60,000 reach, exactly 400 comments) had no verifiable source and was generalized to an illustrati…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
1 flagged claim verified: an anonymous 'Senior AWS Architect' anecdote with implausibly precise reach/inquiry numbers (45,000 reach, 12 companies) had no verifiable source and was generalized to an illustrative pattern.
Corrected by Emir Baycan
1 flagged claim verified: a '14x more profile views... LinkedIn's own research' stat had no locatable source and was found inconsistent with different multipliers (21x/36x) fabricated for the same underlying claim in a…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
9 flagged issues verified: a quote attributed to Stacy Donovan Zapar (real recruiting figure) had no locatable source and was de-attributed; quotes/claims attributed to Greg Jorgensen ('senior technical recruiter at Mic…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
5 flagged issues reviewed: a quote attributed to Martin Yate (real author) had no locatable source and was de-attributed; the 'Ladders eye-tracking... 7.4 seconds' claim was checked against the real TheLadders study and…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
4 flagged issues verified: a quote attributed to Mark Granovetter (real sociologist, but modernized casual phrasing inconsistent with his 1973 paper and not sourced to any interview) was de-attributed while keeping the…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
6 flagged issues verified in this file, plus 2 more in a separate duplicate copy at career/linkedin-profile/linkedin-for-it-job-search.md: a quote attributed to Josh Bersin (real HR analyst, but 'we source' framing inco…
Corrected by Emir Baycan