LinkedIn is a professional networking site with over 175 million members worldwide. In 2012, it generated $522 million in revenue, with 53% from hiring solutions, 28% from marketing solutions, and 19% from premium subscriptions. It has built several open source projects like Kafka for data pipelines and messaging. LinkedIn has a strong culture that emphasizes work, learning, innovation, and play. It recruits top interns and offers opportunities in many technical areas including application development, data science, and mobile.
3. By the numbers
3.4M 71%
2
1
CXOs and VPs College grad or post grad
$86K
3
Average household income
Sources: 1 US internal LinkedIn data, September 2011 2 LRN member survey, September 2011 3The Nielsen Company @ Plan Rel 3 2011
4. Revenue by Year:
Monetization 2009 - $120M
2010 - $243M
2011 - $522M
Revenue by Product:
Hiring Solutions (Recruiters) – 53%
Marketing Solutions (Ads) – 28%
Premium Subscriptions (Subscriptions) – 19%
*as of the Earnings Call Q2 2012
8. Open Source Contributions
Kamikaze Voldemort
Utility package for compressed Distributed key-value storage system.
arrays LinkedIn created
Sensei Zoie
A distributed, elastic, real-time, Real-time search and indexing
searchable database. LinkedIn system built on top of Apache Lucene
created
Azkaban Bobo
Simple hadoop workflow. LinkedIn Fast faceted search with Lucene
created
Kafka
Data pipeline and messaging. LinkedIn
created
3.4M C-level and VP executives in LinkedIn US member base.71% of LinkedIn US audience has college or post graduate degree.$86 Average house hold income.200 Countries and Territories 2 member sign up every single second 60% int’l outside of North America
2nd Annual Intern Hackday – available to all interns in the valley