What a plague of a company.
You give... random applications... access to your contact list?
I think web integrations have gotten locked down since then.. not for altruistic reasons, but because Google and Apple don't want to give Microsoft access to the data they have on you, so yeah, it's at least harder to accidentally give LinkedIn access to your contacts list now, but the damage has already been done for a lot of people
And to come back to the current topic, their app felt so bloated that I removed it.
It's been a while since early Android, but I'm pretty sure that's how it worked.
Some people will be fine finding jobs without it, a lot won't be that fortunate.
I’ve literally never seen a LinkedIn only job for a field I was interested in let alone a job - but I don’t work biz/fintech.
Sure, several of them, I could have found elsewhere, e.g. on a dedicated job board. But I wasn't at those other job boards, nor was the recruiter who brought them onto my radar.
If I had avoided LI, I would have missed out on some of my best gigs.
This is certainly wrong because the usage of LinkedIn is very high. It's equivalent to saying, "I don't take recruiting calls from meat-eaters." I mean, if it's extremely important to you, go for it, but if not, you're doing yourself a disservice.