LinkedIn Head Hunt - Frontend Case Study
Our journey started with a simple but powerful idea: to make it easier for recruiters to find the perfect candidates on LinkedIn. My first task was to create an MVP , or Minimum Viable Product . Think of the MVP as the most basic version of a product that still delivers value. For our MVP, I built a simple Python script. This wasn't a polished application with buttons and a user interface. It was a program that ran in the background. Users would give the script a few keywords—for example, " Frontend Developer ," " 5 years of experience ," and " Delhi ." The script would then use these keywords to create many different Google search URLs. It was like having an assistant who could type hundreds of unique search queries into Google for you. Once the search results came back, the script would scrape the data. This means it automatically pulled information from the search result pages, specifically from LinkedIn profiles. After collecting all this data, the...