LinkedIn

Company with lots of benefits. Other than the benefits that any big company offers, LinkedIn has a PerkUp benefit which reimburses tax preparation or financial planning fees. The work culture of each team is different. Most of the teams are nice to work with.

Moving up the hierarchy after a certain level is quite difficult. There is a very convoluted and twisted process to go beyond the Staff Engineer level, which was formulated by people who reached that level several years ago. They plan to demonstrate it as a fair and reasonable process, which it truly is not.

Senior managers and directors are often getting folks with whom they worked in their previous life. This is making up a culture of "yes boss" groups in some teams inside the company. Break them up and swap them around.