LinkedIn reviews

Seating arrangement is moving to open office plan. We are switching to "umlimited vacation" policy. The engineers who like to design and create products are leaving the company in droves now that growth seems to be tapering off. The folks who are still around are more into "leadership" and "mentorship" than doing real work. This creates a vicious cycle where the engineers who like to push stuff take on more and more and eventually realize that they might be better off at a startup. All in all the things which made linkedin great fun place to work are going away. I think it might have something to do with the fact that are profits are miniscule and continuing to eke it out at our size is a challenge for current management.

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.