Working at LinkedIn
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Kyle Sherman worked at Intel for 6 months and 2 years full time before joining LinkedIn's SlideShare team in 2013. At LinkedIn, he values that ideas can come from anywhere, employees act like owners over the features they work on, and there is a focus on open communication and delivering high quality work. LinkedIn also emphasizes collaboration across large teams to build major products while allowing flexibility to work on smaller teams, and places high importance on customer feedback and needs.
Working at LinkedIn
- 1. Working at LinkedIn Kyle Sherman iOS Developer (SlideShare) Rutgers University '12 October 7, 2015
- 2. My Background • B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering • Worked at Intel for a 6-month co-op and 2 years full time • Been with LinkedIn (SlideShare) since December 2013
- 3. My Experiences @ LinkedIn • Worked on SlideShare's first mobile app on Android • Working on SlideShare's first iOS app • Currently helping out on LinkedIn flagship iOS app • Published LinkedIn Engineering Blog Post on Swift https://engineering.linkedin.com/ios/our-swift-experience- slideshare
- 4. Values Throughout LinkedIn • Ideas come from everywhere; not top down* • Act like an owner • Be open, honest, and constructive • Demand Excellence • Relationships Matter • Members First
- 5. Ideas Come From Everywhere • Many of our features have come from internal hackdays or brainstorming sessions • A major new feature of SlideShare, Clipping, came from a brainstorming discussion • Product team was formed; they planned and implemented the feature • Now there are millions of clips on SlideShare!
- 6. Act Like An Owner • Developers at any level are given sizable features to implement • They own the development of that feature • They communicate with Product Managers and Designers • The feature doesn’t ship until everyone agrees it’s ready
- 7. Intern Project • iOS code • Ruby on Rails API • Tested • Found & Solved Edge cases
- 8. Be Open, Honest, & Constructive • Code reviews are very important • Engineers are encouraged to stand up for what they believe in • Feel free to talk to anyone about ideas or feedback
- 9. Demand Excellence • Collectively decide if we feel the feature is ready • If everyone does not agree or is convinced; it doesn’t ship
- 10. Relationships Matter • Fun events with your team • People play games together late on Friday night in the office
- 12. Members First • Conduct many user studies on all products • Review member feedback and implement changes
- 13. Culture of LinkedIn • Humor • Collaboration • Results • Transformation • Integrity
- 15. Humor
- 17. Collaboration/Results • LinkedIn has video conferencing in every room • Collaborate across teams • No one person makes the decision • We ship products!
- 18. Transformation • You are here to transform your career! • We adopt the latest and greatest technologies like Swift! • LinkedIn is not afraid to change its tools and technologies if developers aren’t satisfied
- 19. Preserving Culture • LinkedIn has acquired many startups • Culture has been preserved • Both Small & Large teams
- 20. Working in a Small Team • SlideShare mobile team was 4 developers, 1 engineering manager, 1 product manager, and 1 designer • Currently 4 engineers on Android and 2 iOS • No dedicated API developers
- 21. Pros vs Cons (Small Team) • Can move fast • Each member knows more about everything going on • Developers own features / product end to end • Can't do as much simultaneously • Focus on fewer things • Less differing opinions to help make product better ConsPros
- 22. Working in a Large Team • Currently working on the flagship iOS team (~50 developers) • Profile Edit team • Dedicated API Development team • Coordination to ensure consistency within each app and across platforms
- 23. Pros vs Cons (Large Team) • Can do more simultaneously • Focus on more than one (few) things • Greater output over a short period of time • More overhead for coordination between members • Difficult to keep track of everything • Difficult to have a full picture Pros Cons
- 24. Best of Both Worlds • Flexibility to work in both environments • Switching teams is very easy and encouraged • Your happiness is most important
- 25. What We Do
- 26. Connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful Our mission
- 27. Create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce Our vision
- 29. Connecting talent with opportunity at massive scale Members Companies Jobs Skills Schools Updates
- 30. Cool Perks! • Great tasting, healthy, free food • Fully Equipped Music Room • Free Exercise classes; Awesome Gym • 50% match on 401K; No maximum! • Unlimited Vacation Days!
- 31. InDay! • 1 Day per month • You can do anything you want • LinkedIn sponsored volunteering events • HackDay! • Learn a new skill