Great place to learn and cut your teeth, but don't expect any career transitions
Pros
Best in class training. Managers really do prioritize you and want to develop you. They set our quotas too high one year and people weren't hitting, so they dropped them down for the reps, but had to keep them high to hit the company goals for the VP's, so the management literally took a hit on our behalf. My VP also didn't have an assigned desk and would just pick a random desk to sit at and when he wasn't at meetings, would talk to us and get our honest opinions about the product and would talk to us about what was working and what wasn't. Very awesome guy. Awesome pay and benefits. Quotas are fair and there's built in relief if some completely out of your control doesn't go your way (like a merger). Great processes in place to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and we're incentivized to work with other business lines so all of LinkedIn benefits. Also lots of learning opportunities in terms of classes to take and ERG's you can join. I have never met anyone who isn't willing to sit down with you for lunch if you asked to schedule something. That being said, it was hard for my team to leave their computers at lunch and they'd often worked through lunch which sucked for team bonding. But also really fun team bonding every quarters pre-covid. LinkedIn also does a great job living it's culture and values to an extent. You're measured not just on how well you do the job you're hired to do, but also if you're contributing to the larger success by creating leverage and acting like a leader. I love that there's an expectation that you will contribute more than just showing up, doing your job and leaving, and instead are expected to help those around you and you're held accountable for that.
Cons
RM is a really tough role though. The AE's go home early, but you're inundated with emails and you're constantly having to straddle between acting like a CSM and acting like a sales rep. Unless your account is big enough to get assigned a dedicated CSM, you're on your own, so you really need to figure out how to scale things and only focus on the clients that will get you to your number. There's also a lot of rules in place when it comes to moving around, unless you can get a manager to really champion you (I have seen one person skip a level and jump straight from SMB to Enterprise, and I don't know how they got to do that). You can only move laterally if you want to switch business lines and you need to be in seat for at least a year. Which means if your business line has no openings for a promotion, you can't interview for a promotion in another business line. You can to move over to that other business line in your same position (SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise), be there a year, hopefully perform well and then if there are openings, you'll be able to promote. Additionally, while the company touts transformation, it's a giant behemoth now. Unless you've spent a year proving yourself to a manager in a sales-adjacent role, most people aren't willing to take a chance on you. Don't think that by getting your foot in the door by getting a job at LinkedIn, you'll be able to move around. Because LinkedIn has become a top employer, they can get top candidates for low level roles. For example, for an entry level data science role, despite extensive knowledge on the product and having taken some data science classes, I was told "why would we hire you when we can get someone with a Masters degree in this?" when I knew multiple people on the team had started with my same background merely two years before. They also had an entry-level Product Manager position that was specifically for internal employees and specifically for people with non-typical backgrounds, so I applied. I did not get an interview because "there were people with more relevant experience." They ended up hiring an engineer. Wasn't the whole point that you were looking for people with non-typical backgrounds (ie, not engineers)? If you want to do something sales adjacent, you could do CSM or Sales Readiness, but that's about it. If you want to move over to marketing, you'll need a filler job in between and probably a year before that working on marketing roles. You will get best in class training at LinkedIn, but don't expect to get an opportunity to do something you're not already doing. Come for a cushy job and nice people. Also had a bit of a toxic sales team thanks to a few personalities and a manager that played favorites. But from my understanding, my team was unique in that experience, so I was just unlucky. Could have switched to another team, but didn't want to start the potential promotion cycle all over again. LinkedIn's also trying to walk the walk when it comes to diversity, but honestly leadership is still old white men at the senior level. My manager all the way up to the global head was all white men. There is some diversity sprouted here and there and they were working on it, but I'd love to see the actual numbers because just looking around it didn't seem to be a huge difference.
