Massive layoffs, but got rid of the wrong people - Software Engineer Linden Lab Employee Review

2.0
Feb 13, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Some of the people I worked with were smart, passionate and really wanted to create something amazing. - Product is interesting - Work/life balance is good (no one really works that hard - which can be a bad thing)

Cons

- Leadership has no vision and don't have the skills to run something as ambitious as Sansar - HR is never around, non existent - The same old people have been there for the longest time - Keep hiring the wrong people and putting the wrong people in positions of power

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Dec 4, 2025
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Pros

Nicest employees I've worked with but no one ends up lasting. Good vacation leave but too hard to take.

Cons

This place was honestly terrible. The people running it didn’t use the product, didn’t understand the customers, and just built whatever they felt like. Then they acted confused when everything failed. The company is run by giant egos who treated employees like used tissues. All the long time employees ended up getting “let go” because they wouldn’t act like puppets or leave because it's hopeless. Then the exact same jobs suddenly opened back up, but only in certain offices. So much for their big WFH culture. The office culture is gone and the rats are leaving the sinking ship. Linden can't increase their user base to save their lives so its only a matter of time. The head of product operations was so toxic someone wrote a fifty page Medium article about it, and the company still didn’t care. Nobody feels safe speaking up. The execs only wanted people who nodded and agreed, and they cared more about themselves than customers or employees. I wouldn’t recommend working here to anyone. It was a total mess.

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