LinkedIn Software Developer reviews

3.7

38% would recommend to a friend

(455 total reviews)
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Ryan Roslansky

38% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated LinkedIn with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 455 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. LinkedIn is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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455 reviews
5.0
Feb 7, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Very challenging work with our massive scale * Very smart co-workers to discuss ideas * Very willing to adopt new technologies and improve systems * While growing fast, you still have the opportunity to make a difference to the direction of products and features. * Work on features that almost everyone uses and knows about

Cons

* Legacy systems are hard to maintain, yet hard to remove at the same time * With our rapid growth, the release process is going through some serious growing pains

1.0
May 5, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a 'hot' company, that's about all.

Cons

Blind technology leadership, not invented here attitude towards standard open source technologies. For example the 'open sourced' Zoie project implements a cheap hack for realtime search using Lucene, that was presented to and rejected by Twitter. Voldemort is yet another copy of Amazon's Dynamo, however it falls far short of Cassandra. LinkedIn has numerous open source and internal projects that show technology comes last, egos, first.

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