If you’ve spent more than 5 minutes on LinkedIn, you’ve doubtlessly seen one or more “gurus” making claims that they’ve “hacked the LinkedIn algorithm” and if you only comment on their time-limited post, they’ll sell you the secret to boosting your performance on LinkedIn. That isn’t how LinkedIn works. In fact, there is no LinkedIn “algorithm” – not one, anyway. Instead, there’s a series of sophisticated AI models at work under the hood. In this newly updated, totally unofficial guide to LinkedIn’s algorithm, we’ve boiled down dozens of LinkedIn engineering articles and papers to distill out how LinkedIn works, how it evaluates your content step by step, and what you should do to improve your chances of being seen.