Find peers for referrals (job search)
You want people doing your target job at your target companies, since employee referrals move applications faster than anything else.
("software engineer" OR "data scientist") AND (Stripe OR Plaid OR Ramp) NOT (recruiter OR director OR VP) Peers answer genuine questions about their team far more readily than executives do, and most companies pay them for referrals. Swap the titles and companies for your own targets, and keep the NOT group so results stay at peer level.
Variations
One company deep
"software engineer" AND Stripe NOT (recruiter OR director) Adjacent teams
("engineering manager" OR "tech lead") AND (Stripe OR Plaid) NOT recruiterPaste into LinkedIn's main search bar, then filter by People. Operators must stay uppercase; the copies above already are.
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