Is LinkedIn a good company to work for as a Software Developer?

Software Developer professionals working at LinkedIn have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 450 Glassdoor reviews. This is a higher than average score with the overall rating of LinkedIn employees being 3.8 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Developer Jobs at LinkedIn now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Developer interview questions at LinkedIn .

Does LinkedIn pay Software Developer employees well?

Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at LinkedIn with 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 450 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 2.5% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Developer salaries and benefits at LinkedIn .

How happy are Software Developer professionals working at LinkedIn?

44% of Software Developer employees at LinkedIn would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 14% in the past 12 months. Software Developer professionals have also rated LinkedIn with a 3.7 rating for work-life-balance, 3.8 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.6 rating for culture and values and 3.5 rating 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))

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LinkedIn Software Developer reviews

4.0

44% would recommend to a friend

(450 total reviews)

Ryan Roslansky

47% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.7

Work/Life balance

3.6

Culture & values

3.5

Career opportunities

2.8

Senior management

Software Developer employees have rated LinkedIn with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 450 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. LinkedIn is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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450 reviews

5.0

Feb 27, 2012

Great company to work for

Software engineer

Recommend

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Pros

Fast paced, growing fast, lots of stuff to learn and get done Selective interview process which means smart colleagues Good name recognition for software engineers Competitive salary, good RSU by current market value 100% paid insurance, free gym, chair massage Free lunch, food and drink in the fridge all day

Cons

Parking space is narrow Line at lunch is long 401k match and target bonus could be better

5.0

Feb 7, 2012

Hard problems, smart people, fast-moving

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Very challenging work with our massive scale * Very smart co-workers to discuss ideas * Very willing to adopt new technologies and improve systems * While growing fast, you still have the opportunity to make a difference to the direction of products and features. * Work on features that almost everyone uses and knows about

Cons

* Legacy systems are hard to maintain, yet hard to remove at the same time * With our rapid growth, the release process is going through some serious growing pains

1.0

May 5, 2011

Technology arrogance without the ability

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

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.

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