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

      4.0
      Aug 5, 2013
      Senior principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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      5.0
      Jun 3, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Quite of freedom to explore and experiments

      Cons

      Reorgs are quite often lately

      3.0
      Jun 9, 2026
      Senior consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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