Principal Software Engineer - Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

5.0
Dec 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Best place to work on open source software. Help create the software that the world runs their businesses on. Flexibility to work from many locations around the world. Anyone can contribute to our open source projects and the very best developers (e.g. best patches submitted) can be considered for our open positions.

Cons

We are a large company, which can be a con. Although, we still have a small company feel in that we have many different initiatives that employees can be part of.

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Cons

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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

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