Silicon Valley engineers joked you'd go to LinkedIn to retire. Then came the PIPs and layoffs.

Fri, 01/12/2024 - 05:00

A chaotic pile of linkedin profiles with — LinkedIn's company culture has undergone a reckoning over the past year, workers say.
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LinkedIn's company culture has undergone a transformation over the past year, workers say.
PIPs and layoffs marked the end of cushy perks and a "rest and vest" culture.
Senior leaders want the company to be "scrappy" in the age of AI.

When LinkedIn told engineering managers to pick out the lowest-performing workers to place on performance-improvement plans early last year, it felt to many like the end of an era at a company.