LinkedIn

Great values around diversity, equality, and a friendly environment.

Great food and perks.

It's possible to take a lot of time off. For example, you can take one day off every month, there are two shutdowns in the year, and managers are really chill about taking extra time. If you do your job, you can take five to six weeks off easily in a year.

Engineering bar is pretty low. The company has a really bad developer experience. You spend most your time trying to figure out issues around tools, wait ridiculous times to build your code, and with some teams you wait forever to get your code reviewed. It's 2021 and this company is just switching to Git. That gives an idea.

Career track: super slow unless you have a manager that will fight for you. Most staff engineers are bad engineers; they will never find jobs outside or never find a staff role. However, inside LinkedIn, it will take forever to get to staff.

Refreshers: The worst. And I say that one more time, the worst refreshers ever. Your manager will give you a 100k refresher that will vest in 4 years for killing it at work and tell you, "Nobody ever received this much." Don't believe HR when joining; they are not telling the truth.

Most LinkedIn managers cannot write code, and they don't understand the LinkedIn stack. Fire bad apples and give more money to good people.