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.

The extensive course catalog to learn from and the versatile domain/functions it caters to Integration with LinkedIn Certificates achieved are easily reflected on profiles An intuitive and user-friendly interface makes for a seamless learning experience

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.

Content sometimes lacks adequate depth for advanced tech experts/industry leaders Limited Interactive Courses Subscription costs increase with a large team

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 2025699 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 2024190 Views2 Comments

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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

Director of Sales

LinkedIn Learning Offers Extensive Catalog but May Lack Advanced Technical Depth

5.0

Dec 2, 2025

LinkedIn Learning offered me a vast catalog of business, technology, and leadership courses that helped me gain a lot of intel and expertise on sales leadership, sales processes, AI, and generative AI—which was critical for me from both a professional and personal skill development perspective.

Web Developer And Data Analytics

High Instructor Expertise Benefits Learners, Yet Course Library Updates Remain Slow

Feb 3, 2026

We started the course for AWS from another company, but then we couldn't pass the exam on LinkedIn for the certificate, so we decided to go for LinkedIn Learning, and it helped our employees very much and has good content; the instructors' capabilities are excellent. After some time we tried to give the exam and we did very well so it is recommended for others.

IT DEVELOPER & RECRUITER

Advanced Group Creation Process Requires More Effort for Large Scale Deployments

Dec 31, 2025

LinkedIn Learning is an amazing platform for upskilling the technical ability of the faculty. Also the progess is shown directly on their LinkedIn Profiles making the completed courses visible. The course quality is also very good with real time scenarios & the mentors are also good.