Passionate but still Immature company. - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

4.0
Mar 30, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Internal movement is facilitated (given you have necessary skills) - People with lots of passion about what they do, specially on the technical side. - Simple and Solid business model on the mainstream product (RHEL), very hard for anything to go wrong here.

Cons

- Lack of seniority and strategic vision from part o Sales and specially from Marketing. - Starting to show the growing pains of juvenile companies, such as: Bad, cost management (penny wise, pound foolish). Whole departments are being created to avoid firing people that don't perform.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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