Is LinkedIn a good company to work for as a Software Developer?

Software Developer professionals working at LinkedIn have rated their employer with 3.7 out of 5 stars in 458 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of LinkedIn employees being 3.8 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Developer Jobs at LinkedIn now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Developer interview questions at LinkedIn .

Does LinkedIn pay Software Developer employees well?

Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at LinkedIn with 3.9 out of 5 stars based on 458 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is equal to the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Developer salaries at LinkedIn.

How happy are Software Developer professionals working at LinkedIn?

39% of Software Developer employees at LinkedIn would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 29% in the past 12 months. Software Developer professionals have also rated LinkedIn with a 3.4 rating for work-life-balance, 3.7 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.4 rating for culture and values and 3.2 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at LinkedIn?

Account Executive (496) , Software Engineer (483) , Senior Software Engineer (307) , Account Director (252) , Relationship Manager (222) , Customer Success Manager (118) , Senior Account Executive (118) , Sales (115) , Manager (110) , Staff Software Engineer (104) , Sales Manager (92) , Account Manager (85) , Sales Development Representative (SDR) (84) , Senior Account Director (80) , Recruiter (60)

What are the pros of working at LinkedIn according to real employee reviews?

"The culture and the vibe at LI is great; there's a friendly "can" ((in 1551 reviews)); "The Dublin office offers great benefits and a culture where I learnt a lot during 4 years." ((in 859 reviews)); "People are great and on site perks are good." ((in 722 reviews)); "being really matters and the company gives you amazing perks to be able to have a good work/life balance." ((in 552 reviews)); "Good pay and policies focussing on employee’s well being" ((in 255 reviews))

What are the cons of working at LinkedIn according to real employee reviews?

"Bad management just some of them" ((in 193 reviews)); "This has resulted in some very mediocre people getting promoted and as a result you have bad managers." ((in 165 reviews)); "Lots of layoffs (but that’s part of working in tech so if you can’t handle this risk don’t get into corporate tech)." ((in 140 reviews)); "Slow career progression based on rigid assessment criteria" ((in 68 reviews)); "Middle management is inexperienced." ((in 50 reviews))

LinkedIn Software Developer reviews

Item: LinkedIn
Rating: 1
Author: Software Engineer

3.7

39% would recommend to a friend

(458 total reviews)

Ryan Roslansky

38% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

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Software Developer employees have rated LinkedIn with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 458 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. LinkedIn is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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458 reviews

5.0

Feb 7, 2012

Hard problems, smart people, fast-moving

Software engineer

Recommend

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Pros

* Very challenging work with our massive scale * Very smart co-workers to discuss ideas * Very willing to adopt new technologies and improve systems * While growing fast, you still have the opportunity to make a difference to the direction of products and features. * Work on features that almost everyone uses and knows about

Cons

* Legacy systems are hard to maintain, yet hard to remove at the same time * With our rapid growth, the release process is going through some serious growing pains

1.0

May 5, 2011

Technology arrogance without the ability

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

It's a 'hot' company, that's about all.

Cons

Blind technology leadership, not invented here attitude towards standard open source technologies. For example the 'open sourced' Zoie project implements a cheap hack for realtime search using Lucene, that was presented to and rejected by Twitter. Voldemort is yet another copy of Amazon's Dynamo, however it falls far short of Cassandra. LinkedIn has numerous open source and internal projects that show technology comes last, egos, first.

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