Pros: Pay is good. There used to be cool things like half Fridays. Included: Microsoft discounts, benefits.

Cons: The work culture at the moment is very toxic. I never felt ill will towards my direct team, but it's essentially your manager and peers vs. the upper rungs of leadership. You get to wait for last-minute decisions and opaque messaging from leadership together. They spew things about growth and learning but could care less. Just focus on your CPPs and reviews, ignore anything that does not support that. Double-speak is like air or water at LinkedIn, especially from the CEO and C-Suite. WLB went down the drain. I went from working like 40+ hours a week. I'd do some overtime occasionally before ramps and for on-calls at times, but it was decent. Near the end, it was not uncommon for me to wake up, log on remotely as soon as I woke up until like 9 or 10 at night, rinse and repeat. They will announce initiatives for new tech and the like every blue moon, but very rarely allocate time for teams to execute any of it. Do not be surprised if a project you are working on is canceled and reorganized.

Pros: Collaborative culture. Benefits are decent, including a generous 401K match (50%) and things like yoga classes, tai chi classes, and aerobic classes.

Cons: Seating arrangement is moving to an open office plan. We are switching to an "unlimited vacation" policy. The engineers who like to design and create products are leaving the company in droves now that growth seems to be tapering off. The folks who are still around are more into "leadership" and "mentorship" than doing real work. This creates a vicious cycle where the engineers who like to push stuff take on more and more and eventually realize that they might be better off at a startup. All in all, the things which made LinkedIn a great, fun place to work are going away. I think it might have something to do with the fact that our profits are minuscule and continuing to eke it out at our size is a challenge for current management.

Pros: Good benefits, good compensation, and interesting problems. The codebase is decent. Teams have a lot of freedom in terms of choosing technology, and engineers get to make a fair number of design choices. There are decent internal mobility options.

Cons: Was not given a lot of agency on initial team placement. A lot of friction between teams: working on projects that require help from other teams can be miserable and stressful. People don't answer their emails. There are no company-wide documentation standards, so you have to find where other people sit and physically go ask them for help with the bad code they wrote.