LinkedIn Reviews

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

good place to work in this place

Cons

stress is there every where so keep on doing it.

Advice to Senior Management

work well on the projects

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

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

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

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

Leadership from the very top is committed to employees achieving their career goals. Company is in hyper-growth mode and showing no signs of slowing down, providing for tons of opportunity for career advancement and mobility. Mission and vision-driven company, which inspires employees to change the world.

Cons

There is no downside to working at LinkedIn. However, compensation may be a tiny bit higher elsewhere, although the benefits cannot be beat.

Advice to Senior Management

As this company starts to feel a lot bigger, stay true to our value of doing more with less.

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

The people at LinkedIn are like none other I have worked with! True talent lives within this company and I can't see myself being anywhere else right now!

Cons

LinkedIn 15! There is always a great selection of food at this company, but if you indulge it's not so great for your waistline. However they have a great fitness program so you really don't have an excuse!

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to hire top talent and keep treating your employees the way you do.

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.