Is LinkedIn a successful way to advertise jobs? I know it seems like they're all on there, but the last two times I hired, the LI crowd was by far the lowest qu

Is LinkedIn a successful way to advertise jobs? I know it seems like they're all on there, but the last two times I hired, the LI crowd was by far the lowest quality. I got 700 applicants in a couple days (and 1000+ in a week) for a data science posting at a startup in 2019, almost all were entry-level applicants for a senior-level role. I don't blame the applicants, but it was basically impossible to wade through so many as a two-person team (me and the VP of Eng I was reporting to). I think LinkedIn is partially to blame in making it too easy to shoot off another application with near-zero marginal cost. We had much better luck with applicants direct to our jobs page. I'm sure a company like Coinbase with their HR/recruiting resources has a rather different experience, though.