I received a phone interview invite for a senior front end engineer role from LinkedIn. Recruiter sent me an email asking some questions. One of them is, Do you know anyone who works at LinkedIn who can endorse you? Is there anyone here, willing to get to know me and then endorse me? Aka refer me? Please dm me if you can help me. Thanks.
Not needed, I was asked the same thing in email and replied no. Did not hurt my chances.
Was there other questions that recruiter asked you to answer via email? Also just curious why the recruiter didn’t ask you this on your phone call?
Yes. There were few more formal questions in the email. Recruiter hasn't called me yet. Conversation is happening through emails.
I smell referral bonus kickbacks between the recruiter and whoever will endorse you.