LinkedIn Reviews

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time for more than a year

Pros – Culture is warm and inviting, open door policy at every level. Most employees have been here less than one year so everyone is welcoming of the new kid on the block.

Cons – Growing at a fast pace, new hires try to insert themselves and prove their value sometime screwing up the current process unnecessarily. Excessive emails and meetings.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to take a breather from hiring at the moment and allow current employees to find their way before bringing in new talent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time for less than a year

Pros – - Start-up feel despite having about 3k employees
- Nice buildings, HQ right next to Google
- Free food, ping pong tables, etc.
- Intelligent, motivated people who aren't a-holes
- Excellent, approachable leadership
- Lots of opportunity to really make a difference
- Employees are seen as most important resource
- Typical Silicon Valley mentality of working more than your 40 hours/week

Cons – - Still trying to get processes in place so sometimes run into frustrations
- Some people say its stock is over-valued
- Gym at HQ sucks
- Not as much free food in SF or other offices besides HQ
- Sales starting salary not great

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the exciting atmosphere and make sure you remember employees are your biggest asset. Without them, you wouldn't go anywhere.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn

Pros – Fast paced
Cool perks
Growth opportunities
Great food
This company is one of the rising stars of Silicon Valley

Cons – The company is growing too big too fast. If you are looking for startup culture then you might have a difficult time here.

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time for more than a year

Pros – There's a positive, inspirational culture and you work with some amazing people. Creativity is encouraged, and you can move around a lot. There isn't a hierarchical feeling. People are open to new ideas and dialogue.

Cons – It's hard to get a sense of strategic direction from Product leaders. It can be challenging to collaborate across product teams. People who like a lot of structure and certainty are likely to be unhappy here.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time

Pros – Lots of great projects to work on, multiple business lines, dozens of new products, and still significant growth ahead.

Cons – Fair bit of coordination and communication is required to get things done since it's a bigger company now

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time for more than a year

Pros – start up culture for a big company, good visibilities for people who actually work on the project. Super strong exec team.

Cons – Getting bigger and seeing more politics. A lot of people coming from consulting firms only want to do strategic work without actually doing things

Advice to Senior Management – Stay nimble, award people who do the actual work. Maintain a flat hierachy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time

Pros – Great culture, feels like a startup

Cons – Too many people, impossible to know everyone

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Very open and collaborative environment. If you are driven and want to do more you can make a great career at this company.

Cons – Still going through some growth/growing pains. Some of the internal software and tools are being tweaked but are still antiquated.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue as you are up and to the right. I have enjoyed my tenure.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time for more than a year

Pros – The people that worked at LinkedIn are happy to be there and it shows. Leadership, leverage, results as sought by every LinkedIn employee is administered through compassionate management. Jeff Weiner is absolutely exceptional on every level

Cons – There are no current cons. LinkedIn is still on the early part of the growth curve which means dealing with ambiguous situations almost everyday. I personally love to work in this environment but I can see how some people might not...

Advice to Senior Management – Do everything possible to maintain the culture and the "start-up" mentality

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time for more than a year

Pros – All the perks you could thin of.
Challenging work environment.
Hyper Growth Company.
You are making a difference.

Cons – The commute is hell.
The satellite office isn't does not have all the perks the main campus does.

Advice to Senior Management – ...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company