Name: LinkedIn Learning
Rating: 4.4 (760 reviews)

Overview

Service Information on LinkedIn Learning

Updated 13th October 2025

What is LinkedIn Learning?

LinkedIn Learning is a software that offers a range of online educational courses covering topics such as business, technology, and creative skills. The software provides video-based learning modules designed to help users acquire new competencies and improve existing skills for professional development. Learners can access course content, track progress, and receive completion certificates. With its structured lessons and expert-led content, the software addresses the need for continual workforce education, aiming to support users in staying current with industry trends and evolving business requirements. It is utilized by individuals and organizations seeking to close skill gaps and foster career growth through self-paced, accessible training resources.

Overall experience with LinkedIn Learning

Manager, Human Resources

<50M USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“Efficient Lead Identification On LinkedIn Hindered By Occasional Account and Search Issues”

4.0

Jan 16, 2026

Our Company uses LinkedIn for both B2B & B2C purposes, they have some advanced features to have a learning curve for new team members, Our company uses LinkedIn on a daily basis to identify potential acquisition opportunities and connect with target customers, LinkedIn Provides Practical and effective tools that help our team achieve business goals consistently

HUMAN RESOURCES ASSOCIATE

3B - 10B USD, Media

CRITICAL

“Integration With HR Systems Useful Amid Concerns of Volume, Relevance, and Cost”

3.0

Nov 21, 2025

LinkedIn Learning is an incredible repository of training and development resources for any stage of life. The team at LinkedIn Learning is always available to assist with questions or concerns to make use of the platform the best that it can be.

About Company

Company Description

LinkedIn, established in 2003, aims to improve productivity and spur success by connecting professionals globally. The network comprises over 850 million members, including specialized executives from across diverse industries. LinkedIn's operations span multiple product lines such as Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions, and Premium Subscriptions. With the main office in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has a worldwide presence with several global offices.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Head office location

Sunnyvale, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

https://careers.linkedin.com

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LinkedIn Learning Likes & Dislikes

What I like most about LinkedIn is its ability to easily identify a large pool of potential acquisition opportunities and talented professionals across the country. The platform makes it simple to connect with recruiters or find candidates who can contribute effectively to our business, making lead generation and talent acquisition more efficient and impactful.

What I like most about the product is the customization features. There is the ability to create learning paths for the organization and create custom learning paths as a user based on career interests. I like the integration with the companies HR systems as well. Employees can easily see job postings they might be interested in and plan to learn the skills necessary for the role. Finally, I love the reporting features. These help us identify where employees are leaning in the most and support discovery and scoping for employee development initiatives built in house.

Massive range of courses covering a variety of topics - business, technology and creative skills. You can have certificates added to your profile and also do lots of bite-sized training which you can pause and restart when convenient.

There are few downsides to LinkedIn, but one challenge is that the AI-Powered search sometimes doesn't work accurate candidate results. which can slow down acquisition efforts. Additionally, the security measures are very strict, and accounts can get blocked unexpectedly. While this helps protect data, it can be frustrating since there is no direct support channel other than email, which may delay issue resolution.

One of the main issues with the platform is the sheer volume of resources. There are a lot of courses and many of them are outdated. For example, courses created pre-covid that do not account for remote/hybrid working environments or trainings that reference social distancing and masking when these practices are not widely deployed. Another challenge is difficulty finding relevant information. Key word searches bring up many relevant topics and sometimes completely irrelevant topics that increase the time spent searching and take away from the time spent learning. Finally, the product is costly with low utilization.

The cost is fine for me but I think it could be off-putting. It's a shame that on all the courses I've done, there has been no way of interacting with the instructor or other participants; not sure if this is the case with all courses but I've done quite a few and never had this so far! The other downside is that the depth of the courses can vary greatly. Some just skim the surface, which for me is a waste of time, although others are deeper but it's hard to know what you're going to get.

Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About LinkedIn Learning

Analyst, HR

How do organizations utilize LinkedIn Learning to upskill employees for higher-level roles and outline additional training pathways employed to close skill gaps?

HR Manager

LinkedIn Learning is not prompted as a company learning path. Most individuals utilize LinkedIn Learning on their own based on their goals. The company does offer a training platform for employees to build out their career path learning. An organization can build out a specific training path by role for their employees or an employee can build their own training plan. Some training is required and tracked by HR/Organization, but most is determined by the individual. It is a great benefit for the company to offer training choices to add to external options.

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15 Jan 2025698 Views1 Comment

Director of HR

What are your thoughts on Cornerstones on demand learning offering? We are reviewing against our current provider LinkedIn Learning and would love to hear experiences. I’m particularly keen to know of your experiences of the range of content, quality of content, applicability of learning, how engaging learners have found the modality and whether you have been able to integrate the learning content into program and learning offerings. I’d also love to know whether you’ve been to leverage the compliance training and whether it meets regulation requirements so that you can substitute other compliance training on topics like anti-harassment as an example. We find challenges with the reporting with LinkedIn Learning and believe that Cornerstone will be more useful in this regard given our LMS is SABA. Is this a fair assumption? For those that have used or researched LinkedIn Learning - how do you find the two as a comparison?

Head – HR Operations, Digital HR & Corporate HR Strategy

I have been using Linkedin Learning for 3 years now, we can connect for detailed feedback. You can contact me on Linked in, would be glad to have a conversation.

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26 Sep 2024189 Views2 Comments

LinkedIn Learning Reviews and Ratings

Recommended Gartner Insights

1B-10B USD

Media

Review Source

Integration With HR Systems Useful Amid Concerns of Volume, Relevance, and Cost

<50M USD

IT Services

Efficient Lead Identification On LinkedIn Hindered By Occasional Account and Search Issues

COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

50M-1B USD

Manufacturing

A solid choice for motivated learners who want flexible professional development choices.

Oct 28, 2025

LinkedIn Learning is a solid platform for professional development and building skills. I think it would be very useful if you're looking to plug some skill gaps or looking to try a new career and need a credible course. However, I just use it to expand my knowledge and skills in my current role to elevate my skills above the minimum requirements provided by my company. It's good for short but decent courses in all sorts of topics but if you wanted to gain a qualification, it's not really the place to do that. I think the monthly cost isn't too bad but I'm quite a motivated learner. I have heard that some companies cover the cost of it but depending on you employer, it's possible they could block some content that they might not deem relevant to you. I prefer to make my own choices and my company provides the ongoing education that is necessary to my job.

PROJECT/PROGRAM MANAGER

Consumer Goods

LinkedIn learning is the best digital learning tool we have used

5.0

Jan 7, 2026

We have used several different digital learning platforms over the years and, frankly, all of them felt clunky - hard to navigate, frustrating to use, and content was uninspiring. LinkedIn Learning is a marked difference in every way, being super easy to navigate, bookmark, share, and the quality and breadth of content is first class.

SECURITY CONSULTANT

Services (non-Government)

Learning Progress Easy To Track But Advanced Technical Courses Are Scarce

Nov 10, 2025

In my experience its average, technically speaking doesn't have as many flaws as other products have (for eg, multiple pop up for nested training content or videos requiring special embedded codecs). Index and track of learning its easy to achieve in the LinkedIn Learning platform. I believe the weak point is in the content of the available training which at least in my case looks pretty basic or much related to best practices, standards and how to improve skills, but not much in specific topics such as development with particular languages, K8's or managing a specific security solution.