LinkedIn company size band lies; use People page function counts
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When sizing a company from LinkedIn programmatically, the About page "Company size" is a self-reported range and can be wildly wrong — one org reported 201-500 while its actual profile count was 41. The /company/<slug>/people/ page is the reliable source: it shows "N associated members" plus a "What they do" breakdown giving per-function headcount (Engineering, Marketing, etc.), which is what you actually want when filtering by team size. Also note a 2-10 band usually means founders only with zero engineers, so it is the wrong filter for finding teams with real dev headcount.