Not a great place to work - Anonymous employee Linode Employee Review

1.0
17 Nov 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Usual benefits, nothing too stellar. Some of the people here are phenomenal.

Cons

The Bad stuff: No career opportunities here with exceedingly high turn over rate Compensation well below market rate No mentoring because everyone is a junior level employee Long hours with no overtime CEO is very "my way or the highway" to a fault The even worse stuff: Several interpersonal issues that were not handled by HR, HR exists but may as well not with how useful they are at handling complaints I was asked to lie to customers about more than one security breach Executives take extended trips and leave no one in charge. When they're in the office, they're not usually effective managers anyway There's a lot of drama at the office now which is draining to deal with Overall: This is an okay job if you're just starting out, but don't linger longer than 2 years or so otherwise your career will stagnate.

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Pros

Work as much or as little, any hours, choose your own assigments (they'd have to be approved, but had about 75% success rate).

Cons

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1.0
6 June 2025
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Pros

Free food and soda, unlimited pto, 2.5x overtime pay, education reimbursement, paid MacBook, paid relocation, housing assistance

Cons

Poor training, punished for leaving office at end of shift improperly without any lockdown procedure training. Reported security concern but fired for not reporting it properly, although it was reported to the security team. Promised promotion after 1 year and management ignored me following up on that. If you work there and leave a bad review on here they threaten your employment unless you remove the review. Mansgement call people sex offenders without proof.

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