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Good company but starting to lose its vision

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at LinkedIn for 2 years
July 27, 2024
Mountain View, California
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great people! Everyone is so kind and helpful, and you will never feel like the smartest person in the room. Someone will always be better than you, but you can always learn from them.

Free food and generally decent company culture and benefits.

Meaningful career development and a decent product.

Good learning opportunities.

Cons
  • Starting to lose sight of what made LinkedIn great and blindly chase profits.

  • Deteriorating culture. There is much more pressure from leadership, so we are doing things faster, but things are being built with worse quality. Adopting a "Fast and scrappy" mentality, which really hurts the overall system structures and engineering excellence.

  • Leadership is overly focused on chasing A.I. instead of developing impactful products that boost the value of Premium subscriptions.

Advice to Management

Leadership needs to understand that breaking fast and developing fast isn't always a good thing. Our infrastructure has much more errors than before.

People are getting more burnt out because of layoffs and heavier work pressure. Morale is low, and employees are not as helpful to each other because no one has time or bandwidth to help.

If things keep going the way they do, LinkedIn will cheapen its brand and we might lose our position when a better competitor emerges.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
4.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
3.0

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