Great potential, but not realizing it - Senior Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
Jul 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Open source culture is great, you get to participate (not just assist) to many conferences and meetups.

Cons

Very hard to innovate, very hard to change how things work, middle management and upper management values and goals are greatly unsynched. You have to be lucky to get in a sane working environment. New hires don't care about the open source culture, and push the company towards closed source practices.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

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