Going downhill fast - Sales Operations Manager LinkedIn Employee Review

2.0
Jan 21, 2025
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Pros

Competitive comp (with Microsoft stock). Decent WLB and some teams still allow hybrid work. There are many genuinely nice and smart people.

Cons

Simply stated, LinkedIn is not what it used to be. It is currently in a period of silent layoffs, so it's challenging to push work forward as partners or even entire teams suddenly disappear, sometimes without even a comment from leadership. It's extremely important to be socially popular among your peers and leaders; success means toxic positivity and tiptoeing around big egos. As a result, problems are usually the fault of whoever is not in the room, and it's not uncommon to hear even senior leaders blame customers for poor performance (e.g. "they churned because they have unreasonable expectations", "they are too inexperienced to adopt our product," etc). It's difficult and even risky to start an open conversation about weak performance or business failures, even when you have the data on your side. This is especially true regarding issues in the product, which is largely stagnant and becoming more unstable as leaders chase a company mandate to pour AI on everything and hope something works out.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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