Great people with junior management - Sales LinkedIn Employee Review

3.0
Apr 27, 2014
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Pros

Great people, free food and a fun office to work in. Employees are allowed to work on their own projects as long as it aligns with their manager's OKRs.

Cons

Career growth, junior management, 401K, Health and Life insurance. LinkedIn had a lot of growth in 2011 and 2012. They tends to hire people over qualified for the roles/positions they are trying to fill and promote long standing individual contributors that have been with the company. Doing this has caused some problems when teams have a lot of senior individual contributors reporting to junior management. LinkedIn's Sales Organization, especially Talent Solutions, is over grown with limited opportunity to move up in the company. You will see employees running to other parts of the sales organization since there is no growth and they are trying to find their own career path. Management always listens to open, honest and constructive feedback, but they never do anything about it. Employees have OKRs each quarter, giving managers only enough time to work on writing feedback on employees for each quarter. The company is starting to split with so many offices. (i.e. San Francisco, Mountain View, New York, Chicago, Sunnyvale, etc.) This is a big issue for those that want to work in the office with a team. A lot people work from home or work in remote locations, making it hard to collaborate with teammates.

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Pros

Ownership of a business gives you freedom.

Cons

Ownership of a business makes you vulnerable.

2.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

Amazing perks and nice people. Perks: I was able to purchase new luggage with the help of some internal points for my performance. Unfortunately, I have not traveled since I left the company with the luggage. Travel also changed after I took the job and I was a global traveler.

Cons

I ended up quitting my job to look for a new job in 2024. The exit from the company was extremely poorly managed by my manager and the HR staff. I had a very difficult time networking after I left the job which is funny given that it is a social networking platform. I felt like there was still a presence from the company even after joining She Runs It, a third-party networking platform for women. I expected more from LinkedIn during my departure. I was unaware what impact working at this company could have on my career. They should really help their employees with their next role and applying as a lot of the applications occur on the platform. There was only an opportunity to interview and reach out to people that worked for LinkedIn at B2B, even though I have B2C experience. AI has really complicated the process as well with writing etc. since leaving.

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