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Working at LinkedInKyle Sherman
iOS Developer (SlideShare) Rutgers University '12
October 7, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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Intern Project
• iOS code
• Ruby on Rails API
• Tested
• Found & Solved Edge cases
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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
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Demand Excellence
• Collectively decide if we feel the feature is ready
• If everyone does not agree or is convinced; it doesn’t ship
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Relationships Matter
• Fun events with your team
• People play games together late on Friday night in the office
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Members First
• Conduct many user studies on all products
• Review member feedback and implement changes
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Culture of LinkedIn
• Humor
• Collaboration
• Results
• Transformation
• Integrity
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http://www.slideshare.net/PatWadors/linked-in-culture-deck?from_action=save
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Humor
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Formal FridaySlideShare Style
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Collaboration/Results
• LinkedIn has video conferencing in every room
• Collaborate across teams
• No one person makes the decision
• We ship products!
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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
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Preserving Culture
• LinkedIn has acquired many startups
• Culture has been preserved
• Both Small & Large teams
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Best of Both Worlds
• Flexibility to work in both environments
• Switching teams is very easy and encouraged
• Your happiness is most important
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What We Do
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Connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive
and successful
Our mission
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Create economic opportunity for every member of the global
workforce
Our vision
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THE ECONOMIC GRAPH
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Connecting talent with opportunity at massive scale
Members Companies Jobs Skills Schools Updates
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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!
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InDay!
• 1 Day per month
• You can do anything you want
• LinkedIn sponsored volunteering events
• HackDay!
• Learn a new skill