It is important to take some of the LinkedIn employee counts with a grain of salt. Often times it clusters companies into different categories of sizes (i.e. 1-9 employees, 10-50 employees) so an 11 person company could appear larger than it is.
The employee count categorization is completely independent of the search count that people are discussing here, it's not based on the number of employees who are on linkedin but rather it's a manually configured field on the company profile set by whoever manages it.
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It is important to take some of the LinkedIn employee counts with a grain of salt. Often times it clusters companies into different categories of sizes (i.e. 1-9 employees, 10-50 employees) so an 11 person company could appear larger than it is.
The employee count categorization is completely independent of the search count that people are discussing here, it's not based on the number of employees who are on linkedin but rather it's a manually configured field on the company profile set by whoever manages it.
Good to know, didn't know larger companies could manually update the count.