People First Culture - Anonymous employee Linktree Employee Review

The best thing about working at Linktree is the team—everyone's mission-driven and pooling their talents to build products that help people start their side quests or level up their main quest. Yeah, it's a business with a bottom line, but the "why" behind it all is what really drives the culture here. On top of that, it’s just a great product, and the team is growing fast. If you’re an engineer, there’s a huge opportunity to dive deep, become a domain expert, and make a real impact. If you’re looking for a startup that’s early enough for your voice to matter but solid enough to feel stable, Linktree is where it’s at.

I almost feel bad bringing this up because the company actually does a decent job with it, but there are some challenges when it comes to coordinating and connecting across time zones. With half (or more) of the team in Australia and the rest spread across the US (mostly California), plus a few folks in the EU and the Philippines, it can get tricky. The biggest pain point for me has been when I need support from someone in my time zone. That said, async communication (shoutout to Slack!) usually gets the job done, and there’s almost always a secondary domain expert around to help.

- Work location is flexible. You can go into an office if you'd like, work fully remote if you'd like, or do a little bit of both. - They have mastered the art of the town hall. At my previous companies, I would low key skip town hall meetings. But at Linktree, they make town halls / company-wide updates very relevant, interesting, and entertaining. - The company's roadmap is ambitious. They're not afraid to expand to new territories in their quest to be "more than just a link in bio." - I've yet to meet a slacker. Everyone I've met so far earnestly wants to help and do their job well. - Our CTO, Farnaz, is amazing and I look up to her. Like if she started a cult, I would join it.

- Teams are distributed across the globe and are therefore not colocated. If you want to form strong bonds with your team, you have to make a strong conscious effort to do so. - Their Engineering Manager layer is weak. It's mostly engineering directors and then ICs, with a small handful of Engineering Managers. This makes the communication bridge between the directors and ICs weak, which results in ICs not having a strong grasp of what they should be striving towards.