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Linux Foundation reviews

4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(67 total reviews)
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Jim Zemlin

86% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Linux Foundation has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 67 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Linux Foundation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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67 reviews
4.0
Jul 17, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Gives you a lot of flexibility. As an intern for OpenMainframe project, I have a lot of flexibility and support to complete my project

Cons

Everything is so awesome. Keep up the work

2.0
May 15, 2019

Great Benefits... but roles change with the CEO's whim!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work, amazing benefits, stipend allowance for cell phone and internet

Cons

You do the work for 10 people, your work isn't valued, high lay off rate, in any department.

1.0
May 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Working remotely - Some nice people work there - They are making a ton of money, so there’s some stability in that — even though it’s being spent poorly, and the board is nowhere to be seen.

Cons

- CEO lacks maturity; the most fearful CEO I’ve ever worked for. Hates that it’s a remote organization and constantly is looking to “make an example” of someone to inspire fear in other remote employees. - CEO only respects his [white, male] buddies’ opinions; I personally witnessed multiple instances of women — women who actually worked there — whose strategic guidance was being dismissed in favor of the perspectives of outside buddies of the CEO, who clearly lacked the proper vantage points to make those calls. - The attitude is that people are utterly disposable. They are remote; they aren’t real people. They are NPCs. The Linux Foundation knows it has a prestigious name, and uses this to create the sense that everyone is lucky to even be allowed to work there — damaging the professional self-esteem of multiple highly-qualified professionals I worked with, and making it difficult to effect positive change or build useful things (nobody does their best work when they feel low and afraid) - Lack of advancement — can’t promote what you don’t see, of course - Strikingly inconsistent expectations depending on the team — some work 14 hour days, others cancel meetings so they can attend yoga. - Zero leadership accountability. It’s always “someone else’s problem.” Burned through at least 2 COOs. Burned through an enormous amount of money building the same product multiple times. All because of fear, insecurity, etc. I cannot stress enough: no matter how good you think you are, or where you’ve worked, don’t work for this CEO. It’s a waste of your intelligence, passion, and time.

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