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LinkedIn Learning pros and cons

Vendor: LinkedIn
4.3 out of 5
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PROS

LinkedIn Learning offers flexibility in customizing recommendations, allowing users to maximize their learning experience.
The platform is valuable for directing users with different expertise levels to specific content, catering to a wide audience.
Users appreciate its interactive quizzes for reinforcing learning outcomes, which significantly enhance knowledge retention.
LinkedIn Learning provides quick access to various subjects, enabling users to immediately apply knowledge to their work.
The platform positively impacts organizations by facilitating skill development at scale, improving productivity, and enhancing employee engagement.

CONS

Courses can be staid and rigid, with only one format available.
Interactive quizzes are often weak and poorly structured, requiring passage to continue.
Lacks courses found on other platforms like Udemy, prompting users to seek alternatives.
Not enough practice tests for specific exams like the CISSP, leading users to seek external resources.
No live sessions available, as everything currently is pre-recorded.
 

LinkedIn Learning Pros review quotes

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.
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.
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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.
AP
Site head Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 15, 2025
What I appreciate most about LinkedIn Learning is that it is easy to understand, user-friendly, and the concepts are clarified very nicely with examples, anecdotes, and other elements.
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.
David Koegel - PeerSpot reviewer
P&C Actuary, Risk Manager at Career break
Oct 20, 2025
What I appreciate about LinkedIn Learning is that it's generally easy to follow, though this depends on the instructor, and there's an ability to fast forward or rewind for 10 seconds, so if you miss something, it's easy to have it repeated so it can sink in.
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.
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.
Ahmad Reshad Ibrahimkhel - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance Officer at Neo Concept
Oct 27, 2025
Interactive quizzes have significantly helped reinforce my learning outcomes because after watching several videos for each training chapter, I need to take a quiz.
 

LinkedIn Learning Cons review quotes

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.
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.
Learn what your peers think about LinkedIn Learning. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
879,259 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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.
AP
Site head Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 15, 2025
While it helps nicely with leadership qualities and management tools, they are not subject-specific.
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.
David Koegel - PeerSpot reviewer
P&C Actuary, Risk Manager at Career break
Oct 20, 2025
Maybe a pause in the course to give the audience the opportunity to work a little bit more with the exercise files would be an improvement in LinkedIn Learning.
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.
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.
Ahmad Reshad Ibrahimkhel - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance Officer at Neo Concept
Oct 27, 2025
During the training, I struggled with the exercises that required self-completion and verification of answers.