LinkedIn Reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(7,624 total reviews)
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Ryan Roslansky

67% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

LinkedIn has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,624 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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2.0
23 Feb 2016

Drink in the Kool Aid at your peril

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Pros

I'm writing this 12 months after I left LinkedIn Marketing Solutions as I believe sufficient time has passed to offer unbiased and constructive notes. The perks are good - such as free food, gym, and other fitness classes Opportunity to travel and meet a broad set of smart and nice colleagues Opportunity to grow or expand your skills in adjacent areas of interests Good fun / social events

Cons

LinkedIn suffers from what others on Glassdoor have called a 'cult like' belief in its mission to help the world's professionals. This belief is drilled into people from day 1 and any deviation from the script is met with disapproval. Middle Management in the London office is/was poor. I suspect this may be down to the legacy of the old guard who have very generous share options and as a result don't want to rock the boat. In LinkedIn Marketing Solutions - the sales team are king. If you are not in the sales team, you are there to service the sales team. This as you can imagine leads to a lot of resentment. Not short of ego at the best of time the behaviour of some of the sales team can be insufferable especially if you challenge their thinking on a client.

1.0
20 Feb 2016

Cult

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Pros

Free food. Nice colleagues. Nice office.

Cons

Cult culture. Horrible middle management. Political B.S. all over the place. Joining this cult was a bad idea.

2.0
4 Apr 2018

Don't believe all the hype

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- great intelligent people to work with - free snacks and meals - great and interesting client work - interesting projects and stretch assignments (if you are lucky to get onto them and your manager is sponsoring you) - nice offices and environment - great compensation and benefits - very sales driven (if you like that environment)

Cons

- a lot of the culture and values are just on paper and not really followed through by all - a lot of politics between teams - a lot of hype on how internal career opportunities are promoted and encouraged - but no real evidence that these really take place even if you are a high performer and year in and out you are delivering - there is little to no support if you are working for the wrong manager or in certain areas of the business which do not offer many opportunities at all - a lot of bureaucracy and manual processes to be able to keep up with your work - in client facing roles you have to prepared to handle a lot of ambiguity at times - individual teams can suffer under mediocre management - a lot of ad hoc requests from management to provide additional information and input at very short notice - making re-prioritisation necessary frequently and can make you feel like you can never really get a good structure in place - workload in teams can vary significantly and as a high performer you rather get overstretched than supported (making it feel like you are punished with more work rather than be praised for the great work you are doing) - there can be quite a bit of favoritism (certain people get all the high profile projects, key clients and stretch assignments) in well established teams that can make feel other team members feel less motivated.

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