""When I was at Facebook, the top engineers were like, 'If you had a LinkedIn account, people would be wondering if you're job hunting,' he said. Novati said these engineers don't need to publicly job hunt because of tech's extensive recruiting arm, which he called the 'secrets of the industry.' 'There are very senior, very highly paid recruiters that work at the top companies who have very strong long-term social relationships with a lot of top engineers,' he said.""
""How do these engineers and recruiters meet? Novati gave the example of an engineer who spends a week doing campus recruiting at Stanford, bonding with the company's recruiter in the process. He referred to these as the 'secret backroom dealings of Silicon Valley.' 'These engineers' names are nowhere, but they are the ones that are the most desirable by these recruiters,' he said. 'The $100 million engineer is not on LinkedIn with a tagline that's like, #100millionengineer.'""
Top-tier engineers often remain absent from public professional profiles and avoid LinkedIn to prevent signaling job hunting. Elite engineers rely on private recruiting networks and long-term social relationships with highly paid recruiters at top companies. Campus recruiting and informal interactions create bonds that enable recruiters to quietly identify and attract top talent. These private channels create secret backroom dealings in Silicon Valley. The approach targets senior, highly compensated Big Tech engineers rather than everyday coders. Highly desirable engineers maintain minimal online presence while recruiters actively cultivate relationships to source talent without public self-promotion.
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