Good for entry-level - Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
Nov 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Helpful people, liberate work-from-home policy, a bit higher than average salary, good visibility of work from outside - majority of projects are upstream. Good offices with (once a week) free snaks and free cofee.

Cons

Extremely low oportunities for advancement, moreover - it's, sometimes, actively discouraged, hard time getting salary reviews, big-enterprise attitude towards workers, engineers need to be able to do politics big time to advance their projects.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

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