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I'm joining LinkedIn Learning as an instructor! 🤗

Desiré 👩‍🎓👩‍🏫 on February 03, 2020

Hello, users! 👋 Today I'm celebrating that I joined LinkedIn Learning as an instructor. 🎉 This january I experienced lots of different emotions. ...

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Feb 3 '20 • Edited

LinkedIn Learning, in my opinion, is bad for content-creators.

They limit your reach, so you can't teach a whole course end-to-end since the rather piece things together from multiple content-creators to create a journey.

You aren't allowed to compete against certain content creators so you are limited in what you're allowed to teach.

You can't publish your content anywhere else that could compete with the content you published.

Its a really bad deal, and I can think of one person who teaches cloud who is now experiencing how bad a deal it was and can't post their content elsewhere.

They can pay you an advanced but it's not worth the short-term money.

LinkedIn Learning has two ways you can work with them, I can't remember than names but one is where you are exclusive 100% to their platform and the other is not.

I'm thinking Desiré here chose the one where they fly you out, the film you and give you full support of the LinkedIn Learning team.

I hope for Desiré that I'm wrong and it is a long term positive then a negative.

fastdev • Feb 20 '21 • Edited

I also had a bad experience with an employee at Linkedin Learning recently.

I had an interview and I never got a straight answer. The interviewer asked me to create a 3-minute video for the follow up interview on the topic for free. I told her work is work, I can’t create a three-minute video for free unless you pay me but I can show you what I have already created on a similar topic. I showed her the video and she really liked it. I am very good at what I do.

Later she emailed me and told me how much I would get paid to put together a course. It was very low so I asked her how long it would take to create the course and she said on average it takes 40 to 50 hours to create a 1 to 4 hour video course. Then she flipped flopped on me and told me it takes 12 weeks plus 5 days to record the content. I told her in that case it takes 3 months to create a course NOT 40 to 50 hours so then she flipped flopped on me again and said it takes 40 to 50 hours over a period of 12 weeks working part time plus 5 days to record.

I told her there is no way someone can complete an advanced technical course that includes content creation, slides and videos in 40 to 50 hours unless they already have all the content created. It is like writing a book and putting together a 4 hour movie in one week that is not possible. Let us be honest, it would take at least three months to create a technical course that is 4 hours long working full time NOT part time.

When I asked her to provide me the name of one instructor that I could talk to that actually completed a 4 hour advanced technical course in 40 to 50 hours she refused and the conversation ended.

Basically, the amount she offered to pay me would not have even covered one month’s rent and food. I was very disappointed by the way she treated me. I feel she was trying to mislead me and take advantage of me during the pandemic.

I am sure there are also good people at Linkedin Learning so I am only complaining about her and the way she treated me and NOT the company.

Please note unfair business practices are against the law here in America! Regardless of what you have signed. Don’t ever work for free and don’t ever let anyone take advantage of you.