Good experience, but be prepared to make LinkedIn your entire life - GSO LinkedIn Employee Review

3.0
Jul 31, 2018
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Pros

- Great perks and benefits - wellness program is fantastic - Investment Day - Catered breakfast / lunch - Work with some truly smart people - Good work is rewarded - Prime office location

Cons

- Mediocre and immature middle management, full of unconscious bias, little empathy, uninspiring - No room to progress, flat structure - Not high on diversity, inclusion and belonging conditional - you must fit in. People who do fit in are rewarded, those who don't are sidelined. Too much pressure to be 'authentic' - comes across as the opposite. - Shiny on the surface, bad politics beneath the surface - Too many distractions - Very hierarchal

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Pros

Excellent work life balance and great kind of environment

Cons

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4.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

LinkedIn has a strong engineering culture, smart and supportive teammates, and meaningful product impact at a large scale. I have had opportunities to work on complex systems, collaborate with experienced engineers, and learn from cross-functional partners across product, design, data, and infrastructure. The benefits, flexibility, and internal learning resources are also strong.

Cons

Because the organization is large, decision-making can sometimes be slow, and priorities may shift before projects fully mature. Promotion expectations can feel different across teams, and the number of meetings can make it harder to protect deep-focus engineering time. Cross-team ownership is not always as clear as it could be.

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