LinkedIn Reviews

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

Pros – Great benefits, activities, and food.

Cons – At lot of moving around of teams and people.

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

Former Employee – worked at LinkedIn full-time for more than a year

Pros – free lunch free snack onsite gyms and massages

Cons – work and life balance is very hard to get

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – It used to be a great company, where we had to deal with fascinating search and analytics challenges. After IPO lots of talented engineers and managers has left, making the whole environment much worse

Cons – My manager asked me to notify them in advance if I would intend to leave. I gave a 6 weeks notice and asked them if I could use a part of that time for the parental leave. They terminated my employment immediately. The manager told me the reason of the early exit was that I'm going to work for their major competitor. It seems some people had brought Yahoo's worst practices to LinkedIn. Now I'm feeling stupid of giving an early notice

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Great culture and very engaging leadership team. The CEO is engaging and inspiring. The company has all you can ask for in terms of perks: onsite gym, catered meals, and even free massages! Also, the company that manages the contract employees is very supportive and offers a lot of assistance.

Cons – The culture and values that makes a LinkedIn such an appealing company to work for does NOT trickle down to the Recruiting Coordination team or much of the contingent workforce. No support/guidance from management, roles are siloed with no room for growth and an extremely faulty and manual "metrics" system are used. During the time I was on board, the Recruiting Coordinator team consisted of 15+ people with only one available full-time position in headcount, so conversion is a pipe dream and very much against their cultural value of "transformation". The contracts are short-term, roughly six months, and during this time, I have seen many member terminated without notice or feedback well before their six months were up.
In addition, people in this role are often disrespected and receive little to no support from management.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to establish a unified process and create a better metric system to assess employees in this role, especially when so far removed from the day to day function of the role. Stop treating people in this role like toilet paper, throwing them out after taking care of the problems that you'd rather not touch.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – * Engineers are treated world class; a stark contrast from a lot of so called "tech companies" that don't actually care about their technical talent
* The best upper management/executive team I've ever worked under. Very transparent group of leaders. It starts from Jeff Weiner (who is the best CEO in the tech industry) and trickles down to everyone else
* Amazing perks like free catered food, free snacks and drinks
* Great compensation and stock packages
* Awesome work/life balance
* Almost all of my co workers care for the success of the company and are great to work with
* Lots of promoting from within
* Great location in Mountain View

Cons – I can't think of anything major enough to consider a "con" of working at LinkedIn. I would say that I wish the gym was nicer/larger and had stuff like spin classes offered, but that's a really low priority for me.

Advice to Senior Management – Starting from Jeff Weiner down to the middle management, the culture at LinkedIn has been one of transparency and genuine desire to have everyone here grow in their career. I hope this continues even as we grow at such a fast pace

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 – We really do work hard and play hard.
Great exec leadership team.
Ridiculous amounts of free food/snacks/drinks.
Lots of room to grow/develop position.

Cons – As with any growing company there's more work than time in the day.
Not great work/life balance, but they try to make it as painless as possible.

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 – - Works like a startup with code pushes into production happening several times a week
- Solving some complex problems and building infrastructure that will scale very well
- Rapidly growing - tripled in size since I joined, yet does not feel very bloated
- Very open culture, frequent all-hands with CEO, and super-smart co-workers
- Hack day, incubator program (where winning team get to work on their project for 3 months and ask for people to work on it) are both awesome perks
- Free food - and it's pretty darn awesome!

Cons – - A bit of favoritism with ex-yahoo employees, although not at a very high degree
- Annual review process is a bit undefined, or atleast I have not fully understood how things are decided there

Advice to Senior Management – - Continue the awesome open culture
- Be less aggressive in hiring - the company is starting to get pretty big

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 – Extremely friendly and fun! Its like not having to go to work.

Cons – Hardly any cons, so I would say no cons!

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 – Great culture & values. All of the employees genuinely care about one another, and this makes for a productive and successful environment.

Cons – Be ready for lots of change...not necessarily a bad thing, but with new products being rolled out on a monthly basis, you must stay organized and be willing to adapt quickly.

Current Employee – been working at LinkedIn full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Free food but you can get paid better elsewhere and pay for your own choice of food.

Cons – Company is going through a very trying period of post IPO sustaining mode. Valuable human resources who brought the company to public are not treasured - they are leaving or let go. Replacement resources are filling in ten fold with lower productivity, less capability and no desire to deliver.

Advice to Senior Management – Very simple, target productivity and make sure projects, tasks and deliver on time and within budget. No more talking only.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend