> "then why would any qualified person stick around on the platform hoping to meet the rare gem like you" Because there isn't really another good way to meet e

> "then why would any qualified person stick around on the platform hoping to meet the rare gem like you" Because there isn't really another good way to meet exclusively good recruiters. This might mean the market is ripe for disruption (i.e., a place where good engineers can meet good recruiters without all the noise). It's the same game as online dating. 99% of the people you will meet you will not have a relationship with, but lacking a better alternative you must wade through the 99% to get to the 1%. > "Could all of them not be made just as well (if not better) through personal email?" LinkedIn's value is not as a communications platform. Anyone can throw up a textbox and send someone the contents of said text field. LinkedIn is known for discoverability - and that remains an unsolved problem. Not every programmer has an up to date resume, on their website, and properly SEO'ed to boot. So the question is, without LinkedIn, how would a (good) recruiter even find your email address with which to contact you? There are alternate ways of discovery, but each one seems to leave a large group of qualified candidates on the floor. Not everyone is on StackOverflow, not everyone is on Github, etc.