LinkedIn reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(7,674 total reviews)
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Ryan Roslansky

66% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

LinkedIn has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,674 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The LinkedIn employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Apr 16, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

1. Very positive culture from the top down. 2. Good sales enablement/development program. 3. Impressive product knowledge program. 4. Nice benefits and perks. 5. Colleagues are very collaborative and 'competition' is relatively non-existent. 6. You're rewarded or penalized based upon your Leadership, Leverage, Results. Honestly, I am not sure how well this works for evaluations, as your Leadership and Leverage 'contribution' is very much up to the 'perception' of your manager. So this falls in the Pros and Cons boxes.

Cons

1. Promotion path is political. 2. Sales quotas are aggressive. 3. Hiring process can be frustrating to outsiders (i.e. candidates trying to get into LinkedIn). It is extremely hard to get hired by LinkedIn, super competitive. LinkedIn is extremely thorough in their hiring process and many candidates are not prepared for how long and disjointed the hiring process can be. Be patient, yet proactive (recruiters have been known to forget to follow up with candidates regarding 'Yes or No'). 4. You're rewarded or penalized based upon your Leadership, Leverage, Results. Honestly, I am not sure how well this works for evaluations, as your Leadership and Leverage 'contribution' is very much up to the 'perception' of your manager. So this falls in the Pros and Cons boxes.

4.0
Feb 5, 2019

Hit or miss

Recommend
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Pros

Strong core historical culture; Diverse workmates; Vibrant, dynamic & challenging work environment; Great fringe benefits; Fun

Cons

Core culture is starting to erode, some miss-hires for key leadership positions

3.0
Jan 9, 2019

Mass Confusion

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pays well above salaries at many other places in the valley. Great benefits. Nice people to work with. Somewhat open culture.

Cons

Competition within the company can foster innovation, but it has been taken overboard. There are tens of overlapping projects, few of which are maintained, all of which were originally designed to replace all the others, and yet none of which can be removed or replaced. The IT team largely lacks effective leadership, and has a three-month horizon (anything that will take longer than three months is automatically squashed as being impractical, will never get done, etc.). There is no overall view of goals, or where things are ultimately headed, other than "break things, get stuff done, and have fun."

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