Pros: Good perks and vacations, with week-long shutdowns twice a year. Good food and a well-perceived brand name. Also, stocks are appreciating, thanks to Microsoft cloud.

Cons: The technology stack sucks, and the network effect of selling yourself to get a promotion has led to engineers not focusing on the company's success but on individual promotion. Very few teams actually do real, good work. Titles are super inflated. Also, the quality of talent has dropped drastically thanks to LeetCode questions, which are not updated for ages. If you think just working hard will make you succeed at LinkedIn, then you are wrong. The only way to grow is to join a new team and send emails exaggerating the work you do. I don't see this company achieving much unless drastic steps are taken to change the environment. If you are joining LinkedIn, make sure to not spend time in execution and just focus on leadership and writing minor review comments.

Pros: Good food in the office

Cons: The engineering org went completely downhill. Incapable and visionless people stand in leadership positions, not knowing where to steer the ship. A 10% PIP was forced in engineering, causing everyone to work 60 hours a week.

Pros: Unlike a lot of places you could work, LinkedIn has a good product that you might actually use. :) The company culture is excellent. Work/life balance is great. It's a safe place to learn new things, try new roles, etc. without fearing for your job. The cafeteria and coffee bars are great (pre-COVID). Compensation is good – not the best but definitely in that top tier of Bay Area employers. It might be the best value though, if you consider the culture and work/life balance. I'd rather work at LinkedIn than get paid a little more to work in a snake pit. :)

Cons: From a career development perspective, try to get on a team doing infrastructure work, especially backend work. Even as a top performer with big projects under your belt, the job responsibilities of a front-end feature developer just don't check the right boxes for a promotion. From a day-to-day perspective, the development tools just aren't great. Mobile infra doesn't meet the needs of developers, working with them can be challenging, and certain areas are notably buggy. Even company-wide infrastructure like crash reporting and continuous integration is slow and unreliable. If you are considering offers, know that LinkedIn doesn't do big stock refreshes like some other big companies in the area. The on-call process is stressful. The apps are just too big and have too many contributors to put a single developer in charge of everything for a week. There are enough developers that you aren't on call very often, but the flip side of that is that you never really get the hang of it, and things are slightly different by the time you do it again.