Red Hat Software Developer reviews

There seems to be a decline in the importance of Open Source for some people, making it OK to adopt proprietary solutions when convenient. It's probably a side effect of a growing company, where a lot of the people coming in don't have the same vision and passion for Open Source.

If you work remotely be prepared to get routinely passed over for everything, not in the office means you're effectively invisible. Much of the engineering work is just bug fixing, even principal developers seem to do little else. If you want the interesting development work, you have to do something to be noticed, and then be prepared to back stab your way through the queue of people for that coveted work. Then you'll invariably have to deal with the egos, and Red Hat has a lot of engineers with ego problems. Work-life balance can be frustrating. I often get to work past midnight. Not that you'll spend the entire time working, rather waiting for the baroque bureaucracy to complete. Personal growth: zero.