sr. software engineer (middleware) - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

4.0
Nov 23, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- hight flexibility (working remotely) - passioned and smart people - low bureaucracy (reporting is reduced to a bare minimum) - open source done right

Cons

- salaries are not where they should be. Most of the salary increases are triggered by engineers and not by management - working remotely has its challenges (self discipline)

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