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LinkedIn Learning pros and cons

Vendor: LinkedIn
4.3 out of 5
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PROS

LinkedIn Learning helps individuals apply new skills directly to their roles and enhances their career progression.
Videos on LinkedIn Learning are illustrative, making learning both engaging and effective.
LinkedIn Learning caters to a diverse range of expertise, providing personalized learning paths for everyone.
Interactive quizzes on LinkedIn Learning reinforce learning outcomes and deepen understanding.
LinkedIn Learning has a positive impact on organizations by quickly upskilling employees, enhancing productivity, and fostering engagement.

CONS

LinkedIn Learning could include more quizzes and tests to enhance information retention.
The structured interactive quizzes sometimes hinder course progression due to mandatory passing requirements.
There is a lack of subject-specific content, even though it covers leadership and management tools well.
LinkedIn Learning should develop interactive quizzes more to address complex problem-solving.
There is a need for diversification in training, particularly in areas like cybersecurity.
 

LinkedIn Learning Pros review quotes

UZ
Senior Global Manager for Corrugated Packaging at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 14, 2025
LinkedIn Learning can have a very positive impact on an organization, as employees can quickly upskill in areas such as leadership, data analysis, and within their field, improving productivity, enhancing employee engagement, ensuring consistency in training, enabling fast onboarding, and gaining data-driven insights.
Chadi Saliby - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Cloud Security- APAC at Temenos AG
Oct 23, 2025
LinkedIn Learning is a perfect platform to provide me with this immediate quick access; I listen to something, research it for an hour, do all the material, and understand that subject to apply it straight away in my workforce.
AE
Board Advisor at EtoundiNnomo Consulting
Oct 22, 2025
With LinkedIn Learning, I can learn anything, as long as it is part of the portfolio; it's very interesting and really helping.
Learn what your peers think about LinkedIn Learning. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
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Sravani Bodanapu - PeerSpot reviewer
Intelligent Ops Journey Expert at ANZ Banking Group
Apr 7, 2026
From a career standpoint, it has definitely helped me move up the ladder.
RL
Semi-retired, senior exec, ex-Amazon, ex-Microsoft at a non-profit with self employed
Oct 2, 2025
The user interface of LinkedIn Learning platform is great and the visuals are of phenomenal quality; they are professionally done, and I find it very rich.
Nick-Mohamed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Technology Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 15, 2025
The interactive quizzes from LinkedIn Learning have helped reinforce the learning outcome significantly, and I walked around afterwards going, 'Yeah, I got that, I understand that,' so my depth of knowledge increased, and I think the key thing about the quizzes is that they reinforce what my listening was with regards to the content.
Dusan Belic - PeerSpot reviewer
DH Arab at Gamechanger
Oct 2, 2025
I use it to learn more about topics that interest me, going through courses while I'm on my elliptical, turning on courses I find interesting, and continuing with them the next day.
JoAnn Corley - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Advisor at Manage Global / a JoAnn Corley Companies
Sep 23, 2025
One of the things I love about LinkedIn Learning and how I use it with clients is the flexibility of how to customize the recommendations so clients can get the most learning.
MS
Assistant Professor at Aalborg University
Sep 26, 2025
The most valuable feature of LinkedIn Learning is that it's a platform directing everyone with different expertise, so to make a platform that really can work for different people of different expertise to direct specific users is something I always appreciate about LinkedIn Learning.
Patrick Devey - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Devey Learning Solutions
Nov 19, 2025
I appreciated the fact that there were a number of courses already curated for me to create this learning path and to ultimately earn the LinkedIn Learning certificate in this area.
 

LinkedIn Learning Cons review quotes

UZ
Senior Global Manager for Corrugated Packaging at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 14, 2025
One of the main things LinkedIn Learning could improve is adding live sessions. Currently, everything on LinkedIn Learning is recorded, and nothing is happening live.
Chadi Saliby - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Cloud Security- APAC at Temenos AG
Oct 23, 2025
One area that LinkedIn Learning could improve is by adding more variety of training in cybersecurity.
AE
Board Advisor at EtoundiNnomo Consulting
Oct 22, 2025
I think the interactive quizzes in LinkedIn Learning are a little bit weak. While they help from a comprehension perspective, they should be developed more to highlight complex problem-solving issues, which would be very helpful.
Learn what your peers think about LinkedIn Learning. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
893,221 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Sravani Bodanapu - PeerSpot reviewer
Intelligent Ops Journey Expert at ANZ Banking Group
Apr 7, 2026
I would not say LinkedIn Learning is economical, but I find that for the benefits it provides, especially when I aim for a serious upskill or job shift, it is worth the money I spend.
RL
Semi-retired, senior exec, ex-Amazon, ex-Microsoft at a non-profit with self employed
Oct 2, 2025
I would rate their support a one out of ten. I definitely wouldn't use it unless someone tells me it's vastly improved.
Nick-Mohamed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Technology Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 15, 2025
It doesn't provide enough practice tests to write, say, a CISSP exam, so I have had to go external to get those exam tests to be able to study.
Dusan Belic - PeerSpot reviewer
DH Arab at Gamechanger
Oct 2, 2025
For certain things, I go to Udemy and pay for courses separately because I cannot find such courses on LinkedIn Learning.
JoAnn Corley - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Advisor at Manage Global / a JoAnn Corley Companies
Sep 23, 2025
Sometimes the courses felt staid and rigid, and it is only one format.
MS
Assistant Professor at Aalborg University
Sep 26, 2025
I don't like how the interactive quizzes in LinkedIn Learning are structured because many courses require you to pass the quizzes to move to the next one.
Patrick Devey - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Devey Learning Solutions
Nov 19, 2025
I often found myself having to go back and rewatch lessons or redo quizzes that I had already completed because it had not updated or successfully saved my work and progress in the course.