Great place to work - Anonymous employee LinkedIn Employee Review

4.0
Sep 9, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Exposure to all sorts of new technologies. Great lecture series. People are generally friendly. For a company that size it seems to have retained a fair bit of startup mentality. Company devotes 1 day a month to hack on anything you want and awards prizes. Free food.

Cons

Lots of politics which is not unusual per se; no more than I've seen in other places that I've worked at. Not a lot of visibility into what other groups are doing at any meaningful detail; weekly operations reports does not cut it. Early employees typically get the choicest projects but it seems that management understands this problem and this seems to be changing.

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Cons

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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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