LinkedIn is truly an amazing company - Site Reliability Engineer LinkedIn Employee Review

5.0
23 Jan 2016
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Pros

Excellent benefits. 50% 401k match up to federal limit, so if you contribute 18k LinkedIn will put in 9k with 100% vested immediately. 100% of all medical, dental, vision, etc. premiums covered by LinkedIn. Free breakfast and lunch every day and dinner 4 days a week. $2000 a year to use for child care, pet care, personal trainer, massages, tennis lessons, etc. Lots of smart people.

Cons

The development tools can be pretty terrible. The leadership for the Tools Engineering org is pretty bad. Many days have been wasted fiddling with some of the development tools. There is also an unhealthy obsession with building things from scratch as opposed to just using the open source versions. There are some things that are being built that we clearly do not have expertise in and which have excellent open source versions.

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5.0
7 Jul 2026
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Pros

good benefit and good office environment

Cons

the value changed very much and not as good as before

2.0
15 Jun 2026
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Pros

Amazing perks and nice people. Perks: I was able to purchase new luggage with the help of some internal points for my performance. Unfortunately, I have not traveled since I left the company with the luggage. Travel also changed after I took the job and I was a global traveler.

Cons

I ended up quitting my job to look for a new job in 2024. The exit from the company was extremely poorly managed by my manager and the HR staff. I had a very difficult time networking after I left the job which is funny given that it is a social networking platform. I felt like there was still a presence from the company even after joining She Runs It, a third-party networking platform for women. I expected more from LinkedIn during my departure. I was unaware what impact working at this company could have on my career. They should really help their employees with their next role and applying as a lot of the applications occur on the platform. There was only an opportunity to interview and reach out to people that worked for LinkedIn at B2B, even though I have B2C experience. AI has really complicated the process as well with writing etc. since leaving.

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