You can totally get hired without linkedin. Where you will get hired will depend a lot on who you are and your skills.
If you're a relatively junior IC, you may not have time to build up an IRL professional network to help you get a job. You may not have a crazy in-demand resume that jumps to the top of the list for senior/staff jobs. This means you need to find jobs instead of letting them come to you.
I've seen people say that reading linkedin is the ultimate resume - standard format, easy to read and parse, and all look the same. So if you're just doing resume drops on online web forms, missing out on that tells the hiring person they have to do more work to evaluate you. That could mean its "too much work" and they just skip you. YMMV but its a risk you take.
I've heard a lot of different takes on recruiters from linkedin. As a relatively mid-level engineer at FAANG, i get constant recruiters messaging me (1 per week min). I found 50% to be not worth my time ever, and the other 50% are recruiters for big/reputable companies (eg. faang et al.) and some of them have given me interviews/leads, - i've even taken a job that started on linkedin via a recruiter cold message.
Personally, i understand why linkedin is annoying to use. It has lots of antipatterns, etc. That said, part of getting hiring is "playing the game" unless you're truly 1/1000000. By sitting out linkedin (when doing resume-drop style applications), you're signaling to the company hiring you that you either are too lazy to update a profile once a year, or your morals against linkedin are stronger than your desire to help them hire you. Its like people who don't keep their resume < 1 page. They are either truly incredible and it can't be fit on one page, or they just don't know how to or refuse to do the simple things that are expected of them.
TLDR: Unless you're special enough to make your own, or you have a strong personal network already, following the status quo may help you.
(also its LinkedIn not linked-in, skip the hyphen)
If you're a relatively junior IC, you may not have time to build up an IRL professional network to help you get a job. You may not have a crazy in-demand resume that jumps to the top of the list for senior/staff jobs. This means you need to find jobs instead of letting them come to you.
I've seen people say that reading linkedin is the ultimate resume - standard format, easy to read and parse, and all look the same. So if you're just doing resume drops on online web forms, missing out on that tells the hiring person they have to do more work to evaluate you. That could mean its "too much work" and they just skip you. YMMV but its a risk you take.
I've heard a lot of different takes on recruiters from linkedin. As a relatively mid-level engineer at FAANG, i get constant recruiters messaging me (1 per week min). I found 50% to be not worth my time ever, and the other 50% are recruiters for big/reputable companies (eg. faang et al.) and some of them have given me interviews/leads, - i've even taken a job that started on linkedin via a recruiter cold message.
Personally, i understand why linkedin is annoying to use. It has lots of antipatterns, etc. That said, part of getting hiring is "playing the game" unless you're truly 1/1000000. By sitting out linkedin (when doing resume-drop style applications), you're signaling to the company hiring you that you either are too lazy to update a profile once a year, or your morals against linkedin are stronger than your desire to help them hire you. Its like people who don't keep their resume < 1 page. They are either truly incredible and it can't be fit on one page, or they just don't know how to or refuse to do the simple things that are expected of them.
TLDR: Unless you're special enough to make your own, or you have a strong personal network already, following the status quo may help you.
(also its LinkedIn not linked-in, skip the hyphen)