LinkedIn reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(7,633 total reviews)
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Ryan Roslansky

67% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

LinkedIn has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,633 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
Oct 20, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Collaborative culture. Benefits are decent - include generous 401K match (50%) and include things like yoga classes, tai chi classes, aerobic classes.

Cons

Seating arrangement is moving to open office plan. We are switching to "umlimited vacation" policy. The engineers who like to design and create products are leaving the company in droves now that growth seems to be tapering off. The folks who are still around are more into "leadership" and "mentorship" than doing real work. This creates a vicious cycle where the engineers who like to push stuff take on more and more and eventually realize that they might be better off at a startup. All in all the things which made linkedin great fun place to work are going away. I think it might have something to do with the fact that are profits are miniscule and continuing to eke it out at our size is a challenge for current management.

1.0
May 5, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

It's a 'hot' company, that's about all.

Cons

Blind technology leadership, not invented here attitude towards standard open source technologies. For example the 'open sourced' Zoie project implements a cheap hack for realtime search using Lucene, that was presented to and rejected by Twitter. Voldemort is yet another copy of Amazon's Dynamo, however it falls far short of Cassandra. LinkedIn has numerous open source and internal projects that show technology comes last, egos, first.

2.0
Aug 30, 2019

LinkedIn

Recommend
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Pros

Great perks, flexi hours, investment in employees health and wellness.

Cons

While upper management is great but middle management is horrible, eating away the company culture. Especially a few cross functional teams I have partnered with have the worst middle management here. No accountability, politics, bias, non inclusivity are a few themes rampant in these teams making a lot of great people quit. Many hardworking people quit due to incompetent leadership who do nothing but sit at a pedastal to divide and rule. Perception is everything and hard work, integrity and culture doesn't matter which is ironic.

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