LinkedIn reviews

LinkedIn's culture has become less culture and more cult as time has gone on. If you don't "fit" with a team and attend every little post-work happy hour, you won't get ahead and will noticeably be ostracized. Middle managers are promoted based on personal relationships or the school they attended more than their performance or qualifications and are largely parrots of what the Directors are telling them to do with very little ability to affect real change. Summer Interns nearly exclusively come from Ivy League schools for no reason, despite a mission to empower youth and provide opportunity for everyone. Internal mobility is not as prevalent as they would lead you to believe - many internal opportunities are never made available to current employees or end up being given to external candidates with little explanation why. They claim to be a "members first" organization, but the every day free member rarely if ever came up in conversations about the future of the business or all-hands as time went on. As they grew, I watched LinkedIn turn into a typical corporate bureaucracy with roadblocks and red tape at every turn to get things done. Business seemed to shift to care more about the bottom line than the member or customer. The salesforce is all extremely young which heavily weights why LI's ratings continue to be so high because it's often someone's first job, so of course they're going to think it's great to get free food and ride scooters. It was extremely rare to see an employee over the age of 45 or so. While they do have diversity and inclusion initiatives, this sometimes seems to only exist to be able to report on it rather than truly caring about diverse thought and experiences.

Unfortunately as we grew, the company started became riddled with politics. Countless number of folks "resting and vesting" and a very inept middle management layer that drove many great employees out of the company.