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 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at LinkedIn?

Account Executive (493) , Software Engineer (477) , Senior Software Engineer (299) , 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 1568 reviews)); "The Dublin office offers great benefits and a culture where I learnt a lot during 4 years." ((in 842 reviews)); "People are great and on site perks are good." ((in 725 reviews)); "being really matters and the company gives you amazing perks to be able to have a good work/life balance." ((in 543 reviews)); "Good pay and policies focussing on employee’s well being" ((in 236 reviews))

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

"Bad management just some of them" ((in 186 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 (but that’s part of working in tech so if you can’t handle this risk don’t get into corporate tech)." ((in 139 reviews)); "No career progression" ((in 59 reviews)); "Middle management is inexperienced and immature" ((in 50 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

(7,645 total reviews)

Ryan Roslansky

67% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.7

Culture & values

3.3

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

LinkedIn has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,645 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

Sep 16, 2018

Great perks and culture

Staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Love the people and food. Management is very compassionate top down.

Cons

If you are an apps engineer, very hard to grow beyond staff. If you are frontend engineer, then forget it entirely, even getting to staff might be difficult.

3.0

Sep 14, 2018

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great cafeteria, commute support, lots of perks, good 401k matching, Msft stock doing great

Cons

LinkedIn culture is slowly dying and replaced with Msft culture. In my pass 2 teams no one worked from home, some engineers are working on their days off and DTO. Promotion is rigid and hard. You won’t get promoted just because you are ‘exceed expectations’ 3 years straight. However, if your manager likes you you can get promoted even if you’ve been in the team for less than a year. People starts to not respond to you, doesn’t answer your email, slack, no matter what you do. If you try to do a project with an external team, then they do their very best to not co-operate. I’ve been here a long time and things have truly gone down the drain. Technologies used are super old and irrelevant.

3.0

Aug 21, 2018

covfefe

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

nice ping pong and fuzzball table

Cons

too many meetings, no one does anything

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