Engineering is Just a Resource - Software Engineer Talent Systems Employee Review

Absolutely love working here. Super friendly, organized, career-growth-oriented. I love it and am so grateful.

None, I truly love working here

Enjoyed most of the engineering team

If you asked me a year ago what I thought I would have given this 5 stars. Caring leaders, teammates who seemed like they actually wanted to be there. I have whiplash from how fast the culture changed once they laid off everyone with a soul and brought in a CTO with no personality and old head mentality. They laid off most of the North American tech team to exploit cheap foreign labor for “cost benefits to hiring off shore”. Great people but disconnected from the product’s big picture leading to disjointed spaghetti code, all for the sake of “shipping faster”. They now put the workload of a bunch of people onto a few. They eliminated most of the QA team “because LinkedIn didn’t have a QA team”, so the QA will fall on developers. They basically want everyone to be both developers and QA and obedient. The CTO also said a bad manger is often a sign of a bad team when everyone knows it’s the other way around. Regardless, the CTO seems to have very little say, it’s all run by product despite epic product decision failures leading to panic to quickly undo the work that was just done. Leadership seems to fail upwards while the people doing the work pay for product’s bad choices. Oh, 1% 401k match. That’s a joke and don’t expect to receive 100% of your full bonus. By the way, I’m sure the “anonymous” 5 star reviews are from the HR team