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>>fortra+(OP)
LinkedIn has become basically a requirement for applying for many jobs making it one of the hardest public profiles for the privacy conscious to hide from Google. I have a pretty common name, which is normally a good anonymity cloak, but if you also know my profession then my Linkedin profile pops up as the first Google result revealing many accurate personal details about me.

>>bosswi+Zm
Is it really that popular nowadays? I remember it feeling like it was an antiquated platform 6 or 7 years ago before my latest job, and in my head I now imagine it as a MySpace-like dinosaur website. Has it made a resurgence? I might just be ignorant.

>>akerst+mn
It's hard for me to remember a software dev candidate I've interviewed in the past three or four years who didn't have a LinkedIn profile. Like one out of several dozens, maybe.

This could point at an earlier step in the pipeline - e.g. the recruiters at those companies may have been using LinkedIn as a primary search tool - but that's a signal of its own.

>>majorm+3p
LinkedIn is for those who don’t have a GitHub. My work speaks for itself; if it’s somehow not enough, the company isn’t worth my time anyway.

>>sigfub+St
Github is great at showing your individual ability, on projects that you're working on yourself and/or ones that you want to showcase.

What happens when you have do code features that you won't want to do? No one puts their dogshit, get-it-done-before-the-weekend code on github.

And it's useless for telling me how well you'll do on a team, how you'll interact with other stakeholders, if you're sketchy and will run off with our IP (or just sell creds on the darknet), and if you'll be able to handle high powered office/project politics and their pressures. Linkedin may not be a perfect (or even good) signal for that, but it's a start. Long work histories but no contacts on Linkedin? Okay, not a dealbreaker, but may be worthy of an explanation.