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I guess they haven't got them all yet, I mean, the consensus seems to be that Apple has ~155K employees[1] not 284K (and obviously not every Apple employee will have a LinkedIn account...)

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273439/number-of-employe...

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Likely a lot of people just never update their employer on linked in after they leave. Especially if they retire. That'd be a different kind of problem than bot accounts.

I haven't updated my LI profile for quite some time. I don't even care enough to login to see exactly what was the last update. I do know that a recruiter was emailing me about a company that I had already spent time working with and since moved on, but was after I quit updating the LI profile. Still haven't retired either.

I have noticed multiple former colleagues where I work not bothering to update their profile when leaving.

Same. LinkedIn even suggested I congratulate one on her 4th anniversary, despite having left a year prior.

You have double accounts and contractors who officially worked someone else claiming employment. Plus former employees who never updated

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