LinkedIn is not a tech company
LinkedIn is not a tech company
- 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).
- 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).
- 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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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
The interview process involved a two-part phone screen, followed by a five-part virtual onsite. The onsite comprised four technical modules and one behavioral interview with a hiring manager. After the recruiter informed me that I had passed the pro
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn directly. Had an initial interview gauging my interest in the position. The initial interview answered most of my basic questions and included a quick, short-answer section covering Linux/Unix and TCP
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
There was an initial phone screen with the recruiter, followed by a coding round. I never made it past this round. Not to worry, it is not a tough exam, but your coding has to be on point in order to proceed.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2022The interview process involved a two-part phone screen, followed by a five-part virtual onsite. The onsite comprised four technical modules and one behavioral interview with a hiring manager. After the recruiter informed me that I had passed the pro
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
United StatesDecember 1, 2014I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn directly. Had an initial interview gauging my interest in the position. The initial interview answered most of my basic questions and included a quick, short-answer section covering Linux/Unix and TCP
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesMay 1, 2021There was an initial phone screen with the recruiter, followed by a coding round. I never made it past this round. Not to worry, it is not a tough exam, but your coding has to be on point in order to proceed.
