A recent survey says…top 4 answers on the board

A recent survey says…top 4 answers on the board

Well, hopefully if you are reading this you get the Family Feud reference. I recently ran a LinkedIn Poll. While not statistically significant, I was able to come up with a few take aways. Unlike the public view of polls on LinkedIn, I can actually see who voter for what. If i want people to participate in the future, I can’t call anyone out, however as a venture capitalist, my job is to do significant pattern recognition. Here are some facts about the poll (I have been very critical of firms like BuiltWorlds, not sharing data from their surveys. They follow zero research protocols and are mostly “pay to play”.) I will share mine, so that you can draw your own conclusions, if any.

1. Consider my audience. I have 33,618 Followers on LinkedIn. They are mostly ENR 1000 AEC Executives, a ton of startups and then as of late, quite a few early and mid career people. I am also at maximum connections (30K), however most of my LI engagement is through followers and not necessarily connections.
2. Consider the reach of the survey. I asked for people to repost the survey. That yielded 20 reposts. That is pretty solid.
3. From LinkedIn Data, the survey : 7,666 Impressions and 4,743 Members reached.
4. Total responses, 338 votes. Based on above the Response to Impression Percentage was 4.4% and the Response to Member Reached was 7%.
5. The below are Viewer Statistics, not voting statistics. The voting stats did not align with the viewer stats.

Now some patterns that stood out.

A significant number of respondents to “The Old School Culture” responses were startup founders and BIM/VDC professionals. There were a few C-Level responses to this from ENR1000 execs. My opinion on this is that many of the founders left the industry because of this and the BIM/VDC professionals are starting to feel the old school culture as they matriculate up the organization. The C-Level responses to me are odd because, “hey maybe do something about it ?!”

In the “The compensation” responses, a stark pattern standout (that then required me to do some counting on my fingers) was that over 75% of respondents were registered professional (PE, SE, AIA, etc). This could be reasoned that as they have taken on more responsibility and move through management, that they don’t feel well compensated for the risk/reward quotient. There were also a few C-Level execs in this as well.

The other categories were not well responded to, so I did not spend a lot of time looking at it. The only thing i can factor is that the poor response tells us that Culture and Compensation were the major factors that respondents were drawn to for this survey.

There were 44 comments on this poll. I am not going to run through them here, but you can go to the post and read them. There are some great points of view in the comments.

Here is a link?

The Linkedin Poll

https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/kpreddy_every-day-i-grow-more-concerned-about-the-activity-7265473262648733697-Enfu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

I would really like to do more polls like this. In the past, the response rates have been fairly low and have seemed like a waste of effort. LinkedIn Polls while biased to my audience are easy to execute and get decent responses. The analytics are tough as well, but overall seems worth the effort.