LinkedIn Reviews in Mountain View, CA

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

Pros

Great name to have on your resume
Great people who are passionate about what they do.
Great perks like free food and inspiring speakers.

Cons

I would not recommend for entry-level positions.
Sales Operations department can feel like a dead-end.
Behind the technology curve internally, they need to start using Office Communicator/Lync.
Too much of a disconnect between departments.
Compensation is low for a tech company.

Pros

Great group of friendly and smart people.
Free lunch.
Always striving to innovate technology.

Cons

So far, I've been assigned a task and have been on my own to direct it. This could be a positive or negative depending on personal preferences.

Pros

Awesome culture. Incredible ability to decide what you work on. Amazing company mission that could genuinely change the world. Great perks, including monthly hackdays where you work on whatever you want.

Cons

Technical debt: an 8 year old website racks up some ugly code.

Pros

Beautiful data: best collection of rich, structured people data in the world. Social network where the connections are meaningful. The satisfaction of delivering real value for users -- we get them jobs and help them be more successful in the jobs they have. Great data scientists and engineers with a strong hacker culture.

Cons

The company has grown quickly, and it shows. Good news: company is working to overhaul legacy infrastructure and processes; bad news: we still have to get work done during the overhaul.

Advice to Senior Management

Watch out for fiefdoms. Reward people who build bridges across department boundaries and push back on managers who try to build empires.

Pros

good career opportunities. learn something from others, really smart and nice people around, good company culture, great C-level team. great food

Cons

many routine jobs haven't been well organized yet. in many cases, one has to manually, not automatically finish the work again and again. very stressful some times

Advice to Senior Management

put your team members in right positions. do not waste their talents. coordinate the jobs so that the workloads are evenly distributed

Pros

Amazing team environment, huge opportunity for advancement if you prove yourself, and easy to get noticed if you have a strong work ethic or good results.

Cons

Not much overall training in sales in this program...sink or swim environment in terms of advancement in the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Unify departments better. Provide better training in the entry positions to prepare those people for other roles within the company.

Pros

Its one of the rare places where when the going gets tough, people tend to come together to get over hurdles as opposed to pointing fingers and blaming others.

Cons

Things take a long time to get "done" and accountability for actions and inactions is not measured uniformly across the org. Very typical org, where squeaky wheels tend to get most of the grease.

Advice to Senior Management

Very late in terms of setting up growth/career plans for employees. Acknowledgement of contributions do not happen at every level. Additionally many roles do not have clearly defined goals and hence makes it difficult to hold folks accountable.

Pros

Smart passionate people
Aspirational vision of connecting all professionals with economic opportunity
Fast-paced environment
Focus on innovation
Work is revolutionizing our industry
Fitness program
Free food

Cons

Work life balance is not ideal
People rarely get fired
Internal communications need to be improved, too reliant on email

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to invest in the culture
Focus on scaling the company so that it doesn't become bureaucratic.
Allow people to take on roles with outsized responsibility rather than bring in more "experienced" people that will add more layers.

Pros

Great opportunity to make the most of your career, even if you want to try your hand in something new.

Cons

We run extremely fast and have a number of projects to juggle at any given time - this company isn't for the faint of heart, and once you get here, you should be prepared to move at full speed.

Advice to Senior Management

Let's worry less about the metrics and more about our members.