- TC wise, LinkedIn on average gives similar if not higher offers than Google and FB (according to Levels.fyi). Example: 300TC for someone with +2 yoe, and 450TC for +4 yoe external hire. - Work-Life Balance wise it's pretty much unbeatable. Probably has the best TC to WLB ratio of any company on average. Also, super long tenures compared to FB/Amazon etc. Blind WLB rating is 4.5, while others are 2.5-3.9. - Stock appreciation is pretty much guaranteed since it's Microsoft stock. You don't have to worry about its volatility like with a lot of post-unicorns (Pinterest, Snap, Lyft etc.). - Great benefits: Top tier food, top tier office design (NYC office is in empire state building), and a lot of freebies. - Decent career growths: Have seen a lot of Seniors get promoted to Staff in just 2 years. Just look it up on LinkedIn. The only main negative might be the slightly older tech stack for the web frontend (although the android/ios teams looked pretty modern). Given the points above, it seems like LinkedIn is unmatched in a lot of ways, with only Google coming close. Thoughts?
imo linkedin is OVERrated. of all the loops i did, the linkedin interviewers seemed the most mediocre (app track).
I had the opposite experience. I'd probably say FB interviewers were the best, but LinkedIn interviewers were better than Snap, Twitter, and Microsoft. (N=1)
wow, that’s refreshing. i’ve asked a few people and they’ve agreed with me. is this also for app track?
another negative is that you work on the LinkedIn platform, which is a bad mishmash of Facebook and Indeed, which are already bad themselves
In the world of alternatives that we have, that's not too bad. Beats Alexa by a few miles haha
Alexa is also a weird product to work on; I’ve avoided that kind of work so far, hope I can continue doing that
Is linkedin fully remote now?
LinkedIn is my dream company. Good Comp, Good Benefits, Good WLB, Top Cafeteria.
No refreshers. Suspect WLB in some teams. Inflated titles. Not close in my mind.
I've heard that the policy changed recently around refreshers. Now exceeds gets a guaranteed refresher. WLB obviously won't be perfect in all teams in every company, but it's more about how the WLB is on average (see Blind's rating). Inflated titles isn't a con, if anything, it's a pro as it allows you to interview at other companies for more senior roles.
you won't get equivalent title at other FANGs. And refreshers are still going to the absolute minority and not even close to FNG
You haven't worked there, it's 💩 for many teams. Terrible wlb for most ML, product, revenue teams. There was an employee that committed suicide from bad wlb at LinkedIn a year ago and management covered it up. My roommate used to work 60+hrs week there, which is common for his team. TC is lower for application teams, standards and quality is low for apps. Titles are mega inflated, hardly consider that good career growth when other companies don't recognize the titles as equivalents. But yeah it's not "all teams" that are bad but not all are as good as you think. Also no refresher. And it's a document pushing culture like google, super product focused and not tech focused, it's a place for PM not SWE. Extremely political as well. Also most of your coworkers will be all Chinese for most teams. 90% engineers are Chinese there and speak Chinese openly in the office. People that speak highly of LinkedIn don't know what it's really like at LinkedIn.
I think most of your points would apply to just about any big tech company. You could say FB also has shit WLB, bad rushed code, bad managers, and is a rat race. I know of many Google engineers with bad WLB but I know others with great WLB. That said, I'd still trust statistical data rather than anecdotes where it seems that WLB on average at LinkedIn is significantly better than FB, Amazon, Uber, Stripe, Snap, Netflix etc. Blind ratings don't lie (4.5 for LinkedIn WLB) vs. 2.5 - 3.9 at the places above.
isnt tiktok similar apart from the document pushing aspect. i was planning on applying to both
Yup, agreed OP. Just want to add that we are remote / hybrid friendly now too. Combine that with MSFT stock’s great growth, it’s hard to beat
Unrelated question but you go me interested. Is it easy to get a call by just applying online? I see linkedin keeps rotating some generic postings like premium platforms etc
I think it depends on the roles you are looking for. I interview candidates that applied straight from the website, all the time
LinkedIn is VERY GOOD for folks who prioritize more wlb bc of our mandatory shutdowns and inDays, basically extra month of paid vacation. Our initial offers are definitely up there esp with MSFT growth. Great for rest and vest. However, we seem to have trouble compensating high performers with good performance refreshers. So your TC might sharply drop after your initial grant expires. Even with our new policy, your TC might only get fixed to around industry average. But this also means it is super advantageous to non high performers. So most of the folks who leaves are probably high performers who can get much better compensation outside and wlb is probably not a huge deal to them. Tl;dr if you are a high performer, don’t care about wlb that much and just want the highest TC growth. LinkedIn might not be the place.
LinkedIn doesn’t need great talent. No innovation there. Mostly In maintenance mode. The quality of engineers is getting lower and lower. High quality quality engineers left or are leaving
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LinkedIn staff is called senior elsewhere, check levels.fyi
Yep, LinkedIn titles are a bit inflated but they still pay super good. LinkedIn Staff == FB L5 == Google E5. Their average bay area TC according to Levels.fyi is 450k vs 395k vs 360k, respectively in that order.
The issue is mostly for people who join from L5 elsewhere (senior) who get subtly demoted to L4 (LinkedIn senior).