Passion, talent, a little skimpy on pay - Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

5.0
May 11, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Talented engineers, passionate about open source. Open/transparent culture. Management really cares about your long-term happiness and will help you find ways to work towards your career goals. Working with the latest technology to stabilize it for enterprise use.

Cons

Salary is a bit low compared to other companies, but the benefits and work/life balance help even that out. Sometimes individual teams can lack leadership or fall into states of dysfunction, but it really depends on your immediate team. And you can always switch to another department (like I did... twice).

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

Bluewashing is real. After 4 years past acquisition it is not Open Decision company anymore. There is no clear communication about the direction where the company goes, some departments were moved to IBM without clear explanation why. Promotion process that was clear before is gone, and now your salary increase or promotion are directly depend on your relationship with the manager and not from your contribution to the team or the product.

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