Your responses here are going to be biased towards a subset of hackernews that vocally hates this type of thing many of whom aren’t interested in the signaling.

Your responses here are going to be biased towards a subset of hackernews that vocally hates this type of thing many of whom aren’t interested in the signaling. I’ll try to balance it. Every technical person I know building a company is active on LinkedIn and most technical people I know employed at FAANGs are active on LinkedIn. Every event I go to in SF has people trading LinkedIn or Twitter. I myself have had multiple previous job opportunities through LinkedIn and still get high quality job opportunities through it regularly.