Same for me. I got my current job because of a recruiter on LinkedIn (where my previous applications to the company got no follow up). They also make it easy fo

Same for me. I got my current job because of a recruiter on LinkedIn (where my previous applications to the company got no follow up). They also make it easy for me to interview at hedge funds because they spam me a lot about that, which I don’t mind except for when they somehow call me. I don’t even particularly care if these are semi-automated because when I follow up it results in genuinely getting added to the interview pipeline It’s already delivered a lot of value to me. I know they use lots of creepy/dark patterns and there are a lot of things I don’t like, like the news feed or teasing features behind paywalls. But it’s still worth it IMO. I have got tens (maybe hundreds?) of thousands of dollars of value out of it without paying a cent, just filtering through some spam