Great company, great people, some growing pains - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

4.0
Feb 9, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company still has a huge business opportunity ahead of it. There's a lot of freedom to innovate and work above your current role. The culture is very collaborative.

Cons

It's loosing some of it's open source start-up spirit. Ambiguity is prevalent, so make sure you can cope with developing your own career path, defining processes that don't existing, etc. The overall compensation is only average.

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