Does LinkedIn pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, LinkedIn employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at LinkedIn. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at LinkedIn?

66% of LinkedIn employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated LinkedIn 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.7 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at LinkedIn?

Account Executive (494) , Software Engineer (477) , Senior Software Engineer (302) , Account Director (248) , Relationship Manager (222) , Senior Account Executive (118) , Customer Success Manager (114) , Sales (114) , Manager (110) , Staff Software Engineer (100) , Sales Manager (92) , Account Manager (85) , Sales Development Representative (SDR) (84) , Senior Account Director (80) , Recruiter (60)

What are the pros of working at LinkedIn according to real employee reviews?

"The culture and the vibe at LI is great; there's a friendly "can" ((in 1551 reviews)); "The Dublin office offers great benefits and a culture where I learnt a lot during 4 years." ((in 856 reviews)); "People are great and on site perks are good." ((in 741 reviews)); "70% of the time the comp plan feels fair and a good work/life balance." ((in 538 reviews)); "It's a good company with free food and Company shut downs twice a year." ((in 248 reviews))

What are the cons of working at LinkedIn according to real employee reviews?

"Bad management just some of them" ((in 189 reviews)); "This has resulted in some very mediocre people getting promoted and as a result you have bad managers." ((in 162 reviews)); "Lots of layoffs and the shifts when you start suck." ((in 133 reviews)); "Slow career progression" ((in 57 reviews)); "Middle management is inexperienced and immature" ((in 52 reviews))

What are employees saying about LinkedIn layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about LinkedIn layoffs and their outlook for job security at LinkedIn in 2026.

LinkedIn reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(7,664 total reviews)

Ryan Roslansky

66% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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LinkedIn has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,664 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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8K reviews

2.0

Sep 16, 2015

It's easy when you're the only one on the hill...

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

Pay and benefits. Decent culture at the main campus.

Cons

A complete lack of focus. We have no true competitors so we aimlessly wonder. Trying anything and everything. Everything team feels an inch deep and a mile wide.

4.0

Jul 16, 2015

Nice place, poor fit personally

Software engineer

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CEO approval

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Pros

Good benefits, good compensation, interesting problems, decent codebase, teams have a lot of freedom in terms of choosing technology, engineers get to make a fair number of design choices. Decent internal mobility options.

Cons

Was not given a lot of agency on initial team placement. A lot of friction between teams: working on projects that require help from other teams can be miserable and stressful. People don't answer their emails. There's no company-wide documentation standards so you have to find where other people sit and physically go ask them for help with the bad code they wrote.

2.0

Feb 28, 2015

Good but very salesy and top down

Senior sales operations analyst

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CEO approval

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Pros

Able to learn a lot There is free lunch and snacks

Cons

Top down It's a pure sales organisation Moves very very slowly

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