Pros: Very great intern program with lots of activities. I had managers that pushed me to my potential and a great team.

Cons: They're pretty decisive on hiring, and it's purely based on "business need" for return offers.

Pros: Leadership - very mature, honest, and direct. Compensation - top-tier salary + stock, amazing benefits, A+ food, etc. Work/life balance - 1 enrichment day/month, lots of forced (entire company on vacation) time off, 9-5 workdays for most. Culture - everyone I met is very supportive and helpful. Pro growth and change (changing jobs, careers, etc.). Mission - great to know that you are improving economic opportunity for the global workforce. They put their money where their mouth is on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. LinkedIn supports and runs many programs to improve DIB at LinkedIn and around the world.

Cons: Very bureaucratic. Lots of meetings and cross-team coordination are required for everything. Old tech stack, at least 10 years behind 'modern'. Lots of manual work in the engineering domain that should be fully automated by now. To get a new service up & running, it takes more than a few meetings with platform teams, tickets, escalations, manual configurations, etc. Middling technical foundations and excellence. While there were exceptions in various teams, overall the technical bar did seem lower. Looking at other companies of LinkedIn's size and age, they are publishing docs, books, papers, blog posts, etc., about their tech stacks and processes. LinkedIn doesn't do that because they don't innovate like other companies.

Pros: Good pay. Relaxed culture. Well-funded.

Cons: Upper management can seem clueless. Too many initiatives at once. Decision-making doesn't seem very data-driven.