Good people, good salary, good job - Senior Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

4.0
20 Dec 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of freedom on how to get things done. You can be really innovative and you'll be rewarded for it or you can just do what you are told, up to you. You are always encouraged to go to open source meetups and conferences and do one or more talks. If you have the right manager, the salaries and work conditions can be easily negotiated and improved. And of course, you get to work on open source all or almost all of the time.

Cons

Sometimes the work is not easy or just tedious and you have to push a few extra hours to get to the good stuff. Some of the manager and marketing teams are always pushing on not using opensource (thou being an open source flagship company), and are getting more and more power. Salaries are a bit lower than most, if you don't consider working on open source a plus.

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
9 Jun 2026
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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

Bluewashing is real. After 4 years past acquisition it is not Open Decision company anymore. There is no clear communication about the direction where the company goes, some departments were moved to IBM without clear explanation why. Promotion process that was clear before is gone, and now your salary increase or promotion are directly depend on your relationship with the manager and not from your contribution to the team or the product.

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