Teams at LinkedIn – like the one I help lead for trust, privacy, and equity – are tasked with the hard work needed every day to ensure that you can safely and securely connect to opportunity. Over the last few months, we’ve seen a rise in fraudulent activity happening across the Internet, including here on…
Authenticity matters when it comes to providing every LinkedIn member and customer a safe, trusted, and professional experience on our platform. Beginning Thursday August 17, Canadians will have access to a new, free way to verify their identity for use on LinkedIn. LinkedIn members will have the opportunity to add an extra layer of trust…
Table 1: Partial listing of user onboarding experiences The holes in the above chart – the majority of spaces – represent gaps where self-service does not exist yet. In those cases, creating an end-to-end data pipeline involves writing custom code to bridge the gaps. For streaming data pipelines, this involves writing stream processing jobs. For…
For recent college graduates, landing that first job after receiving a hard-earned diploma can be a stressful and challenging experience. Negative perceptions of these young candidates aren’t helping. According to a recent survey conducted by Intelligent.com, 4 in 10 business leaders believe recent college grads are unprepared to enter the workforce, citing work ethic, communication…
As the global job market continues to shift, having access to unique perspectives and insights from incredibly skilled professionals is more valuable than ever before. From cybersecurity insiders, to agriculture experts, to thought leaders on diversity and leadership, and beyond, the world’s experts are talking on LinkedIn. If you’re looking to gain even more professional…
Today, Microsoft announced Q3 FY23 Earnings. Included in the report on the financial performance were the following LinkedIn highlights: In Q3, LinkedIn’s revenue increased 8% year-over-year (10% in constant currency). We once again saw record engagement, as more than 930 million members turned to the professional social network to connect, learn, sell, and get hired. …
Advancing to the next level through mentorship At LinkedIn, I’ve received so much support from my current manager toward achieving my long-term goal of frontend engineering. We have a unique working relationship since we collaborated on the same team before he became my manager. All of his feedback is transparent and supportive of reaching the…
Every company has a reputation. It could include thoughts about your products, services, leaders, team members, history, and more. Your company’s reputation can inspire a specific perception — emotional, instinctive, intellectual — in the people who see your ads, use your products, and speak to others about you. That reputation is known as your consumer…
In this second part of our “Mythbusting the Feed” blog series we’ll answer the question “What shows up in my Feed, and why?”, show you how to tailor your Feed so that you don’t miss the conversations that matter to you, and address common myths and misconceptions around how the Feed works. If you missed…
Today our CEO shared changes to our Global Business Organization (GBO) and our China strategy that will result in a reduction of roles for 716 employees. He sent the following email to all LinkedIn employees. —————————————————————————————————————- Team, Last week, we celebrated our 20th birthday by reflecting on the pride we all feel in the company…
Authors: Deven Walia, Vivek Subramaniam, Simon Desowza, and Karthik Subramanian Cloud services have completely changed the way we approach infrastructure management. It’s now much easier to manage large infra requirements that have traditionally demanded an amalgamation of teams like DBA, Infra-SRE, Onprem-SMEs, network managers, and access control managers working together. However, the ease of these…
Learning and development in the workplace can feel like serious business, because it often is. Building skills for the future of work is urgently important to both individuals and organizations. In order to keep employees engaged with and enthusiastic about these programs, implementing some lighter approaches to L&D can be helpful. Personality tests have often…
I have the pleasure of hearing from you and members across LinkedIn how much value you get from our professional community we’re building. Equally important, is that in order for you to find that next job, learn new skills, or connect with others, you want to feel confident that the people you come across are…
To help B2B marketers continue to meet this moment and deliver results, we are introducing new products and services so that they can: Prioritize the most high-value work with the help of AI-generated Copy Suggestions, which uses generative AI to create text and headlines for ad creative** Showcase how paid advertising can drive business impact…