[lbrito]

>They work through their networks, leveraging referrals, and will frequently vanish from one job and appear in another without submitting a resume, contacting a recruiter, or touching anything on linkedin/gh/etc.

I literally never heard of this, ever. Not even for staff+ positions.

I've read something on the lines of "even Tom Hanks sends his resume to the director when applying for a role". Hyperbolic or not, I've found this to be vastly true.