Good culture, poor salary - Software Applications Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
22 Feb 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The culture here is great Free snacks and drinks Good benefits

Cons

Low pay, I left here for a 40% increase in pay Promotion process is unclear at best They promote open decision framework, but it seems to be more of an internal marketing tool as input into it is often disregard Sold out to IBM, so there goes the great culture

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Cons

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