A lot has changed (and not for the better) - Anonymous employee LinkedIn Employee Review

2.0
Oct 23, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pros largely revolve around the benefits Linkedin provides: - Great benefits ($2K for wellness-related expenses) - Amazing 401K matching - Pretty good food

Cons

Cons largely revolve on what may make your day-to-day hellish: - Bad work/life balance: this largely depends on what organization you're on. The paid products/infra teams tend to have better work/life balance than the free consumer app teams. - Lots of mediocre middle-management bloat: Linkedin clearly promotes people who have been at Linkedin for 3+ years to prevent them from leaving. Unfortunately, these people usually fall into one of two categories: (1) cares about you and means well but puppet of upper management or (2) only interested in management for their career growth and don't care about yours. - Extremely top-down culture: leadership pushes their "vision" and promotes mercenaries to execute exactly how leadership wants. This is particularly true within the free consumer app teams, whose "vision" generally consists of copying one of 3 apps: Reddit, Facebook or Instagram. - Sexual assault: heard of it happening by middle-management. Enough said.

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