LinkedIn

Pay is good. There used to be cool things like half Fridays.

Included: Microsoft discounts, benefits.

The work culture at the moment is very toxic. I never felt ill will towards my direct team, but it's essentially your manager and peers vs. the upper rungs of leadership. You get to wait for last-minute decisions and opaque messaging from leadership together. They spew things about growth and learning but could care less. Just focus on your CPPs and reviews, ignore anything that does not support that. Double-speak is like air or water at LinkedIn, especially from the CEO and C-Suite. WLB went down the drain. I went from working like 40+ hours a week. I'd do some overtime occasionally before ramps and for on-calls at times, but it was decent. Near the end, it was not uncommon for me to wake up, log on remotely as soon as I woke up until like 9 or 10 at night, rinse and repeat. They will announce initiatives for new tech and the like every blue moon, but very rarely allocate time for teams to execute any of it. Do not be surprised if a project you are working on is canceled and reorganized.

It really is sad what has become of this company. Hopefully, things change for the better with time, but I am not optimistic.