Sure they spam you with "XX wants to connect", or "I'm awaiting your reply" emails. But real contacts and friends can call/email you, and everybody else can wait six months.
Despite only connecting with actual people I've worked with, not recruiters, I still get "suggested" posts which are slop, and "that happened". The site is a cesspool.
I deleted my account after I got my first job offer and have never used it since.
If people dislike the site so much, I don't understand why they don't delete their account. Is there any value provided, or is it the fear of missing out on potential future value?
Like a fico score, you can't escape the game if you want to play.
I don't like it. I mean, I hate it. But when you receive 1000 resumes per day for a job posting, agressive filtering is the only way forward. My days don't have a 1000 hours.
Combine this with so many people who fabricate a fake resume with AI to sound like a perfect match to the job description. I need to review it against a linkedin job history to see if the story is consistent. Hard to believe the number of people who have their linkedin job history say one thing and their resume is completely different. This means I must be very suspicious of people who don't have a linkedin history, because it means the resume may be completely fake. So it goes to the reject pile. It's not fair, but I have 999 resumes to review after this one.
To summarize, if you are famous from conference talks, published papers or such, you don't need linkedin. If you are a regular non-famous person, you do need it.
but since then it's slop slop slop