How to find your connections at a company on LinkedIn
Two free filters do almost all of the work here. The paid ones are built for finding strangers, which is a different job from finding the people you already know.
By Jerry Feng, Growth at Happenstance. Updated August 28, 2026.
The short version
Open the company's LinkedIn page and click the People tab to see its employees who are on LinkedIn, grouped by where they live, what they do and where they studied. To see only the people you already know there, run a people search instead, set Current company to that employer and the Connections filter to 1st.
The People tab is a directory, and the filters are the product
A company's People tab is designed to show you the shape of the workforce: how many members list the company, where they live, what they do, where they studied, what they say they're skilled at. Clicking any bar filters the list. It is good for browsing and bad for searching, because the people you personally know there are not one of the breakdowns.
The free filters that answer it live in people search, one level over. LinkedIn publishes the list: Degree of connections, Locations, Current company, Connections of, Followers of, Past company, School, Industry, Profile language, Open to volunteering, Service categories and Keywords. Only one of the filters on that list, Actively hiring, is marked Premium. Current company plus Connections set to 1st is free, and that pair is what answers the question.
The paywall buys scale rather than access. Sales Navigator Core is $119.99 per month (LinkedIn) and buys seniority, function, headcount, tenure and job-change alerts. Those filters are for working a list of companies where you know nobody. For "who at this company would take my call", they add nothing.
One limit applies whichever route you take. LinkedIn's commercial use limit counts profile views on a Page's People tab as well as searches, it won't tell you the number, and it resets on the first of the month. Browsing forty profiles to work out who to ask is how people burn it.
Doing this with Happenstance
LinkedIn can tell you who works at a company and which of them accepted your request. It cannot tell you which of them would reply to you today. Happenstance answers “Who do I know at Ramp?” across every account you connect, which runs from your two mail accounts and your calendar through to your Google Contacts, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. The strongest relationships come first, each with the reason attached, and people with no LinkedIn tie to you at all are in the list. Groups widen it again: a team or community that pools networks turns your colleagues' connections at that company into paths you can see.
Happenstance is free. The free plan is the whole product, with usage limits on chat and web searches beyond your network. Pro raises the limits: unlimited web searches and results, higher chat limits, and CSV export. The account-by-account version of who you know where is on Happenstance for sales, and the one-person version of the same question is mutual connections.
The message to your person on the inside
Written for email, because it survives forwarding better than a LinkedIn message does. Keep it under 120 words.
Subject: Quick one about [company]
If they offer to make the introduction, give them something forwardable rather than leaving them to write it. The shape of that paragraph is in the warm introduction email.
What Happenstance can see
Email is read as headers only. Message content and attachments never reach our servers. Yes. Your connections are searchable only by you, the friends you accept, and the groups you join, and sharing is always mutual. Your public profile shows a constellation of named people you know by default, which you can turn off anytime. We never share, sell, or use your data to train AI models. Happenstance is SOC 2 certified and DTI Trust Level 2; the full list of what is stored and for how long is on the security page.
Frequently asked questions
How do I see who I know at a company on LinkedIn?
Search the company name, open its page, and click the People tab for the full employee list. For the people you're connected to, use people search: type the company name, press Enter, click the People filter, then set Current company to that employer and Connections to 1st. The result is your first-degree connections who list that company as their current employer.
Can I filter a company's employees by connection degree?
Not from the company page itself, which is built as a directory. Do it in people search, where the Connections filter takes 1st, 2nd and 3rd+ and combines with Current company. That combination is free and is the single most useful pair of filters LinkedIn gives away.
Do I need Sales Navigator to find connections at a company?
No. Current company, Past company, Connections, School, Industry and Locations are all on the free account. Sales Navigator, at $119.99 per month for Core, adds seniority, function, headcount and tenure filters, which matter for prospecting into companies where you know nobody, not for finding the people you already know.
Does the People tab count toward LinkedIn's search limit?
Yes. LinkedIn's commercial use limit explicitly covers viewing member profiles on the People tab of LinkedIn Pages, alongside profile searches and People Also Viewed. LinkedIn doesn't publish the number and won't lift it on request, and it resets at midnight Pacific on the first of each month.
How do I find former employees of a company on LinkedIn?
Use people search with the Past company filter set to that employer rather than Current company. Former employees are often the better people to talk to: they can be candid about how the place works, they have no internal politics to manage, and they usually still know who runs what.
Why does the employee count on the People tab look wrong?
It counts members who list that company on their profile rather than the company's headcount. Contractors, people who left and haven't updated their profile, and staff with no account all pull it away from the real number. Treat it as a search index, not a payroll.
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