A senior engineer's view of Red Hat - Senior Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

4.0
Aug 5, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working hours, high pedigree engineering team, low management interference. Lifestyle - working remotely, etc - and highly encouraged community participation.

Cons

Below average pay scale, increasingly political environment. Product management wrestling increasing control over upstream open source projects. Somewhat adversarial relationship between business and engineering.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Great Culture and work life balance

Cons

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