Linkedin 950 connections study

Nov. 17, 2017

Introduction

One of my most favorite activities is to review my connections on linkedin at the end of 2017. Over one hour, I went over connections by shared connections and tried to collect some statistics, and see how my friends make their career movement, how they advance their career.

I started to see how many of them moves to Amazon, and then went over others and found out what kind of jobs they change.

Now it is 11:48 PM, I started from 10:00 PM. I started to 10:00 PM since I believed that I booked the mock interview, and then I toured LinkedIn and just got lost in those connections.

What to study 

I have over 900 connections, first I went over my messages history last 12 months and found out over 90 mock interviewers's update. So surprisingly, a few of them got jobs in Facebook (2), Amazon (4+), and Microsoft (2+). I checked their job history and understood how they are selected. Some of them have solid work experience through last job, over 4 years, well-established companies.

The list of companies I looked up are Microsoft, Google, Apple, LinkedIn, Amazon, HP, ITW, Oracle, Sony, Intel, Motorola, Florida Atlantic University, etc. I added some friends through mock interview, and started to learn how new generation of people work compared to my old friends, from Intel, Intuit, Cisco, Qualcom, etc.