I don’t tend to keep in social contact with people I have worked with for networking purposes. Guess it just feels a bit fake. Sure I like someone as a coworker

I don’t tend to keep in social contact with people I have worked with for networking purposes. Guess it just feels a bit fake. Sure I like someone as a coworker but I need to check in once a month to keep me on their mind? For 200 people that is a lot of work! I just find there are say 10000 jobs to look at on job sites and maybe a handful of companies through connections so dragnetting searches give more opportunities than seeing who colleagues work for. And then even if someone who thinks you are great works at Google you still need to leet code etc. Not sure what advantage you get. Other than some inside knowledge of if it is worth applying to and what the interviews are like. I don’t think I am a top coder, certainly not commercially but I am OK. But the networking aspect seems like an orthogonal concern/effort to the being good at what you do.