Politics, politics - Sales SMB LinkedIn Employee Review

3.0
17 Oct 2013
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Pros

Like most employees I do love working with LinkedIn, but it saddens us to watch the organisation's cultural values of integrity and flat hierarchy succumb to internal politics. A prime example is the recent flood of over-enthusiastic reviews here on Glassdoor, all posted within the space of a few days, following some very negative reviews just before the month of October. Convenient... When CEO Jeff Weiner, highly regarded by all employees, visited the offices, the entire building was repainted, cleaned and employees were told not to approach him personally and any questions were vetted beforehand. Working at LinkedIn is exciting and challenging, but you will be putting in the hours. Your salary won't reflect your skills, only which territory you happen to be stuck with. This sadly cost us some valuable team members. Out of a team of exceptional, stellar sales people, perhaps 10% can expect to hit annual target. There are some fantastic perks, like free food, entertainment etc, and you are almost guaranteed a great career post LinkedIn, but we'd love to see some changes put in place soon.

Cons

Work-life balance, compensation good but not fairly distributed, politics, politics, politics.

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Cons

I ended up quitting my job to look for a new job in 2024. The exit from the company was extremely poorly managed by my manager and the HR staff. I had a very difficult time networking after I left the job which is funny given that it is a social networking platform. I felt like there was still a presence from the company even after joining She Runs It, a third-party networking platform for women. I expected more from LinkedIn during my departure. I was unaware what impact working at this company could have on my career. They should really help their employees with their next role and applying as a lot of the applications occur on the platform. There was only an opportunity to interview and reach out to people that worked for LinkedIn at B2B, even though I have B2C experience. AI has really complicated the process as well with writing etc. since leaving.

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