LinkedIn

Leadership - very mature, honest, and direct.

Compensation - top-tier salary + stock, amazing benefits, A+ food, etc.

Work/life balance - 1 enrichment day/month, lots of forced (entire company on vacation) time off, 9-5 workdays for most.

Culture - everyone I met is very supportive and helpful. Pro growth and change (changing jobs, careers, etc.).

Mission - great to know that you are improving economic opportunity for the global workforce.

They put their money where their mouth is on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. LinkedIn supports and runs many programs to improve DIB at LinkedIn and around the world.

Very bureaucratic. Lots of meetings and cross-team coordination are required for everything.

Old tech stack, at least 10 years behind 'modern'.

Lots of manual work in the engineering domain that should be fully automated by now. To get a new service up & running, it takes more than a few meetings with platform teams, tickets, escalations, manual configurations, etc.

Middling technical foundations and excellence. While there were exceptions in various teams, overall the technical bar did seem lower. Looking at other companies of LinkedIn's size and age, they are publishing docs, books, papers, blog posts, etc., about their tech stacks and processes. LinkedIn doesn't do that because they don't innovate like other companies.

Keep up the awesome work on culture and mission! Talk to some modern companies at LI's size/age to see how they structure their engineering orgs and processes to compare.

Fund internal tooling teams more and give them carte blanche to do what they think is right, even if it steps on some toes.