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Great Perks, Slow Development

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at LinkedIn for 2 years
March 21, 2016
Mountain View, California
3.0
Positive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great food, coffee, snacks, and perks.

Great initial offer and stock.

Great 401k matching.

InDay – a day a month to hack, paint, or whatever.

Overall, a good environment with some intelligent engineers and awesome perks.

Cons

Team moves incredibly slow (might not apply to everyone).

Bad refresher stocks.

Maintenance mode development.

Extreme tech debt was taking a huge toll on development.

My team wasn't really exciting and was mostly just maintaining the existing product. I felt like the engineers weren't given much freedom to design, as most of the time the architect would babysit us.

Advice to Management

Trust your engineers. Let them work on fun projects. Encourage people to actually participate in inDays.

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