[happyopossum]

I ah e not seen this play out in practice at all. In 25 years I’ve been at 8 tech companies, all of which came through connections.

None of those have had an insular bubble - typically you know a few people, and they each have worked with a few others, but unless you go all “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon” on it, none of these jobs look like what you’re describing.

[randomNumber7]

If you can't see the bubble you are inside of it.