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: It used to be a great company, where we had to deal with fascinating search and analytics challenges. After the IPO, lots of talented engineers and managers left, making the whole environment much worse.

Cons: My manager asked me to notify them in advance if I intended to leave. I gave six weeks' notice and asked if I could use a part of that time for parental leave. They terminated my employment immediately. The manager told me the reason for the early exit was that I was going to work for their major competitor. It seems some people had brought Yahoo's worst practices to LinkedIn. Now I'm feeling stupid for giving early notice.

Pros: Good food. A lot of time off. Good benefits.

Cons: When Jeff Weiner left the company, he took compassionate leadership with him. After Ryan took over, we were optimistic for a while, but the next thing you know, people who suck up to their bosses get promoted to senior management. Engineers who squeeze the last drop of creativity every day out of themselves get promoted to managers, and now they start squeezing the last drop of creativity every day out of everyone they manage. There is no more compassion in the leadership, although they still pretend there is. To be specific: * Work gets scheduled with 5-day work weeks in mind, even though we get many Fridays off. So, what do we do? We work on days off to get the work done. Newer engineers are worked to the bone without promotions, refreshes, or any learning opportunities to improve themselves. Senior engineers are occupied too and aren't willing to help guide new members. * Bait and switch. When interviewing candidates, LinkedIn still leads them to believe there's good work-life balance here. But when they enter the company, they're confronted with a completely different reality. * Less pay, but with good excuses. LinkedIn offers a slightly bigger package than many other companies upfront, but there's typically no annual refreshes. And they think this is okay because there's better "work-life balance" (there's not). There are rumors going around about people getting annual refreshes for doing good work. I haven't seen one in person. * The tech stack is very old and poorly documented. You're also not expected to find much help from other engineers. You're on your own. Good luck. * New feature development is pointless. I only use LinkedIn to find jobs. Who cares about other features? Somehow we have hundreds of new features under development at any given time (many of them will be deprecated in a year or two, after their product leads get a promotion). There is no meaning in the work.