Lots of challenges - Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

5.0
22 Oct 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of very exciting/difficult challenges, especially in engineering. Variety of work and people, working with very talented people from all around the world.

Cons

There is the occasional RockStar. All projects (OSS) implement their own build tools and development processes. This can be a pain if your work spans multiple projects

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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

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