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 2% 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 (493) , Software Engineer (477) , Senior Software Engineer (301) , Account Director (247) , Relationship Manager (222) , Senior Account Executive (118) , Customer Success Manager (114) , Sales (114) , Manager (110) , Staff Software Engineer (99) , 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 1540 reviews)); "The Dublin office offers great benefits and a culture where I learnt a lot during 4 years." ((in 840 reviews)); "People are great and on site perks are good." ((in 726 reviews)); "being really matters and the company gives you amazing perks to be able to have a good work/life balance." ((in 552 reviews)); "It's a good company with free food and Company shut downs twice a year." ((in 258 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 158 reviews)); "Recent layoff was not necessary in these economic conditions" ((in 126 reviews)); "Slow career progression" ((in 65 reviews)); "Middle management is inexperienced and immature" ((in 51 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.

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LinkedIn reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(7,646 total reviews)

Ryan Roslansky

66% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.7

Culture & values

3.2

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

LinkedIn has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,646 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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Reviews by job title

8K reviews

5.0

Apr 23, 2012

Best job I've every had

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Personal Leverage: Still agile enough that an individual can make a difference at the company. And the company reaches 100M users monthly. Awesome ability to make a dent in the universe. Impressive lack of stupid politics. Generally strong interdepartmental cooperation.

Cons

Increasing bureaucracy. Still not too bad but if the rate of increase continues it might get frustrating. Bay area staff split across multiple locations increases functional silos. Lack of automation in some key internal functions (e.g. Human Resources)

5.0

Mar 29, 2012

Generally LinkedIn lives up to promise to transform its employees careers

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

-Working on a very meaningful problem (connecting talent with opportunity at massive scale) -Strong senior leadership for the most part -Significant revenue traction - no concerns about the business model

Cons

-Growing bureaucracy and some politics between functions -Disfunctional product org: senior leadership inspires fear, but without the Steve Jobs genius -Linkedin.com is clunky and inferior to peer companies such as Twitter and Facebook on usability

5.0

Feb 29, 2012

Great place to work

Manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

great people and very interesting projects

Cons

based in Mountain View, very crowded offices

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