LinkedIn "Alliance"
Finished reading "The Alliance" and was curious if LI employees have seen these mgmt principles in action?
The book isn’t about Linkedin. It’s about Reid. We follow some concepts but not others. Yes we follow the alumni concepts strongly but only some sales managers follow the tour of duty concept. I don’t think Eng ever followed it at all.
Are you in Eng?
Could you elaborate?
I’m afraid this has no bearing on how LI actually rolls. I was never invited to say what’s my next career goal and we’re all pretending this arrangement is permanent until one day I resign
That's unfortunate. What team or dept?
I have honestly found it to be honest and part of the culture, fwiw. Perhaps I’ve just had great supportive leaders & managers in our org
Hmm, quite a discrepancy. Seems like culture entropy then? I didn't get the feeling that this was ONLY Reid' darling and was only lip-service but if culture is not reinforced it breaks down at the department/team level.
The policies prevent it from being a reality. Think of what would be on the employees side of the alliance: most likely, promotions and SPECIFIC experience. Now realize promotions are decided by a committee with inconsistent and nondeterministic criteria, so manager actually can't commit to that no matter what the employee does. As for specific experience,that often assumes a certain project, and in reality (in eng), projects get deferred/cancelled/changed such that specific experience can't be promised either. Concepts in the book sound great, but book also says LinkedIn actually practices this stuff, which I haven't seen even be possible much less practiced.
Are you in mgmt?
Mainly curious about the tour of duty and alumni concepts and if they have worked