LinkedIn reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(7,657 total reviews)
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Ryan Roslansky

66% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

LinkedIn has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,657 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The LinkedIn employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Aug 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great engineering team, lots of interesting and tough problems to solve, smart people abound, many perks (free food, gym, etc), good work/life balance, and a great place to learn if you are fresh out of school.

Cons

Lots of politics (and increasingly so), some difficulty managing the super-fast growth, unclear career trajectories, somewhat shortsighted product roadmaps, too much focus on optimizing page views for the short term, compensation all over the place, too many inexperienced product managers in charge of rather important decisions.

3.0
Apr 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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