Makes Work FUn - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

5.0
Oct 17, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Part of growing, successful company Clean, important work Healthy work environment working with mostly smart, driven people who all want to make Red Hat succeed. Open Source just feels good.

Cons

Fast growing company who tends to keep employees who cannot make the adjustment from small to large. Some employees confuse open source with charity and do not understand the necessity of profit making. Everyone seems out to get us, I get paranoid at times.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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