I was contacted by Google and interviewed based on my profile page on the crufty, tag soup website of my employer at the time. shrug

I interviewed with all the FAANGs except Netflix over the last 5 months through internal recruiter contacts on LI.

Probably half the interviews I’ve had over the past decade have come from LI, and I think at least 4 or so jobs (including my last and most recent) started there.

It was largely useless in the aughts for me, but not lately.

Same.