Future of LinkedIn !!
What’s the opinion about future of LinkedIn as a company? If a senior engineer joins there, can he plan to work hard and grow for 5-6 years to let’s say senior staff engineer, while at the same time handling challenging projects. Also does it really matter which team one starts with, coz a lot of things will change in 5-6 years, and moving teams is easy as I am told. I am trying to compare it with amazon AWS. Good teams in AWS seem like rocket ship— lot of hard work, but you get a chance to be in the team that’s solving a lot of hard problems. Such kind of growth might pay off in career in terms of better future opportunities.
Starting pay is overrated. It’s a good start, but if a company isn’t growing, then there will not be enough refreshers. Changing company is an option in that case, but if you want to grow quickly in a senior position, it’s better to be in the same company for a few years.
Fairly stagnant I'd guess. They aren't making any innovations in their product, though it's very useful.
LinkedIn actually has the potential to eat everybody’s lunch. 👀
Your TC is going to fall off the cliff at 4 year mark.
Considering “seniors” there are people with 1.5 YOE, don’t expect major growth in terms of real work but rather title changes. They pay well, but the 4 year cliff is very obvious I’ve heard. And they’re not doing anything. WLB is great because it’s just a hotel for SWEs with little to do other than work on open source and squeeze out a few latency and relevance numbers. Of course this is what I’m told from people over there. I don’t have first hand experience.
Yes, that title inflation, oof.
Netflix has everyone as “senior” is that title inflation? LinkedIn titles just work differently.
LinkedIn is not keeping up with competitors and will most likely require a partial write down within 5 years.
How easy or hard is it to change teams after an year, for meets expectations case? Specially if one wants to move from tools or platform to system infra ?
I was the one who posed that question. So let me answer- not very hard to move to an Infra team at LinkedIn. I recently shifted tracks to Infra
So are you guys saying that it’s easier to move to infra from inside rather than from outside ? Are such moves possible? I know a lot of infra projects at LinkedIn are open source. Do contributions to those projects help?
So the thing is I have offer from LinkedIn. But not from infra org. I am trying to see if I can do more interviews to give a shot at infra track. Let’s say I don’t do well in infra interviews , does it make sense to join other teams, if I have offer from a very strong team in amazon aws. My plan is to maybe make open source contributions to the infra projects, and try to make a move in 12-18 months. Wondering if it’s worth it.
Problem with amazon is its culture and utter lack of wlb in teams that are strong in engineering. And that’s a big advantage at LinkedIn. LinkedIn looks like a company where once can work hard in a good team, and still have a decent life. And maybe get one or two promotions in 4-5 years. With amazon I feel that I will have to get out in 2-3 years because of burn out.
Not sure how they make money, but they sure pay well.
Linkedin is an amazing social media with meaningful content with great moderation built in. Most of the social media turn toxic. I wish linkedin doesn't chase after user growth and allow stupid people into the platform
That still doesn’t explain how they make money 🤔