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Poor tools and mid-level leadership hold a great place to work back

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at LinkedIn for 4 years
January 31, 2016
Mountain View, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Good compensation. Good benefits. Executive leadership appears to be trying to improve the company. Plenty of great things to do if you can budget your time well enough to do them.

Cons

Senior Engineers are not held to a consistent standard for both hiring and promotions. The engineering tools' systems are a nightmare. If it wasn't built in-house, it will not be used. No opportunity for open-source solutions. Mid-managers are unwilling to fix structural problems. Senior Managers are promoted on their ability to ignore structural problems. Feedback to any leadership is met with hostility and retaliation. Lack of commitment to invest in automation.

Advice to Management

Open feedback to management.

Change the tools culture to have a higher commitment to reliability and consistency.

Invest heavier into automation by forcing the SRE organization to automate.

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