LinkedIn reviews

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.

Honestly, *really* terrible upper management across product and engineering. Poor decision making in launching new products: not waiting for data and constantly trying to go "all in" on shiny new projects that haven't proven themselves yet. The consequence is constant churn of engineering resources, a build-up of tech debt, poor WLB, and no good product to show for all of it. Additionally, upper leadership in engineering, instead of pushing back on product themselves and evaluating whether product initiatives make sense, shifts this accountability to ICs. Inefficient and doesn't make sense at all. Also, as part of this, performance evals have gotten stricter. Despite the public stance of no quotas for PIP, there actually are quotas during calibration discussions. Most engineering teams are underwater and unhappy.