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Nice place, poor fit personally

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at LinkedIn for 2 years
July 16, 2015
Mountain View, California
4.0
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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.

Advice to Management

Shield engineers from having to spend most of their time tracking down and negotiating with other teams, because that really isn't what we signed up for.

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