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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at LinkedIn for less than 1 year
September 24, 2016
Mountain View, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Pay is good.
  • Food is decent.
  • You do not have to do much (if any) work.
  • With only mediocre people around you, rising in ranks is easy (though requires lots of politics).
Cons
  • Nothing to learn, except maybe politics.
  • Engineers around you are mostly mediocre (at best).
  • Technical management usually consists of people who are technically incompetent.
  • Management structure is very deep. Every tiny bit of functionality is factored out into a separate team, with its own management structure.
  • Fix the culture. Technical culture is non-existent here. Your engineers should be smart and bold, not the reverse (which they are right now).
Advice to Management
  • Rise the technical bar, to be able to hire smart people.
  • Fire incompetent people and merge the remaining ones into broader teams under a flattened management structure.
  • Hire the best people: engineers who care about the product they are building, and managers who care about their team, not their position.

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