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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
You're missing out on a lot of opportunities by not giving LI consideration. A lot of good companies use it, GitHub is also important for developers.

However, you can double your income by thinking differently about LI. If that doesn't speak to its value as a network, I might need to reassess what network value means.

>>verdve+yA
> However, you can double your income by thinking differently about LI.

How? I would love to double my income.

>>greggy+8C
My current compensation is more than 4x what it was at my first job out of college 14 years ago. It would have been difficult to pull that off without getting in touch with recruiters at major tech companies on LinkedIn.

I did not have an expert write my profile and in fact I’ve hardly touched it in years.

>>sgeren+aF
So is mine, and none of it is due to LinkedIn.

My most recent job search consisted entirely of friendly intros (most by colleagues at the hiring manager level) at a mix of startups and major tech companies. I have met these people through the normal course of business and life, and never through LinkedIn.

Maybe I'm special, because I've spent my career in tech consulting, so I got to network that way, but this is hardly a unique career path.

>>greggy+8y1
I think people that already live in tech hubs or are just in a position to network in person certainly don’t need LinkedIn as much as I did to get introductions to the major tech companies. For me, living in a smaller market and working for a small company it would be very difficult (not impossible) for me to have broken in without a LinkedIn introduction.