RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
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RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
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Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#2Nitpick: it's Red Hat. Two words.
I wish other Open Source companies adopted some of Red Hat's awesomeness, specifically open development of upcoming releases, a public bug tracker, and their patent promise.
Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#3Just out of curiosity; I have moved from IT management to consulting and design. I haven't been running production systems directly for the last 3 years.
What is Red hat doing to support this many employees?
Who is using Red Hat most? When I was at Lockheed, I was deploying CENTOS - as well as at other startups. I also used Ubuntu in a number of cases.
Are extreme scale companies, such as Google Facebook and Amazon not using their own custom builds?
I just can't figure out what that additional 1,000 employees would be doing.
EDIT: Ok after reading that article, and a few others; they are going for a big cloud push. With the acquisition on Gluster, it would appear that rolling native cloud-specific features into their offering makes it a strong candidate for cloud infrastructure on which others build their business and services.
I can also imagine that with the federal cloud strategy, where they see the ability to shift several billion in annual spending on systems to cloud based services, that redhat will be selling to those who are trying for that federal business.
Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#4Just out of curiosity; I have moved from IT management to consulting and design. I haven't been running production systems directly for the last 3 years. What is Red hat doing to support this many employees? Who is using Red Hat most? When I was at Lockheed, I was deploying CENTOS - as well as at other startups. I also used Ubuntu in a number of cases. Are extreme scale companies, such as Google Facebook and Amazon n…
Yahoo is red hat, I believe amazon is also. One of the reasons is why should even large companies want to focus on supporting an operating system (yahoo still sort of tries this with freebsd) when a company that does that and only that will probably do it better.
Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#5If they're looking to hire 1000 people this year, you better hope that their HR and hiring workflows have gotten better than what they were in 2008.
I sent my CV to a Sales Engineer in March. First phone screen went well, end of quarter happened, and the next thing you know it's June before my second and third round phone screens take place. They fly me to NC in August. Did more interviews, and received a verbal offer on-location, with a formal offer letter, along with stuff I needed to complete for my background check, etc, to arrive via mail.
Sent my receipts in for reimbursement...and then radio silence...for two months. I received my expenses back...so I just assumed that they had found a better candidate, or, something, and that they were no longer interested in me. I did get a phone call from someone at RedHat asking if I'd be interested in a different position, but, I opted-out, having enough of the interview rodeo.
Similar people that I know who have been hired directly by Red Hat have mentioned tales of similar woes with their hiring process, so, I'm somewhat confident that it's not me that's broken....
Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#6Just out of curiosity; I have moved from IT management to consulting and design. I haven't been running production systems directly for the last 3 years. What is Red hat doing to support this many employees? Who is using Red Hat most? When I was at Lockheed, I was deploying CENTOS - as well as at other startups. I also used Ubuntu in a number of cases. Are extreme scale companies, such as Google Facebook and Amazon n…
Red Hat also does consulting.
Companies like Williams Sonoma outsource their entire e-commerce presence to them.
Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#7If they're looking to hire 1000 people this year, you better hope that their HR and hiring workflows have gotten better than what they were in 2008. I sent my CV to a Sales Engineer in March. First phone screen went well, end of quarter happened, and the next thing you know it's June before my second and third round phone screens take place. They fly me to NC in August. Did more interviews, and received a verbal offe…
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. 2008 was a long time ago, though. I'm ex-Red Hat and know first hand that there can be hiccups in the hiring process, but overall it's a really great place to work. Very few places have have FOSS as a cultural value like they do.
Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#8Nitpick: it's Red Hat. Two words. I wish other Open Source companies adopted some of Red Hat's awesomeness, specifically open development of upcoming releases, a public bug tracker, and their patent promise.
I wish other Open Source companies adopted some of Red Hat's awesomeness, specifically open development of upcoming releases, a public bug tracker, and their patent promise.
Some of us are working on doing just that[1]. We have an open issue tracker, code on Github and a commitment to real Open Source development. We haven't done a "patent promise" yet, but we don't have any patents, and it's just something that we haven't gotten around to yet.
Of course, I'm an ex Red Hat guy myself, and have been a fan of theirs for a long time, so it comes pretty naturally for us. We're also in their backyard geographically so I guess it shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#9Just out of curiosity; I have moved from IT management to consulting and design. I haven't been running production systems directly for the last 3 years. What is Red hat doing to support this many employees? Who is using Red Hat most? When I was at Lockheed, I was deploying CENTOS - as well as at other startups. I also used Ubuntu in a number of cases. Are extreme scale companies, such as Google Facebook and Amazon n…
> When I was at Lockheed, I was deploying CENTOS
Just curious, was it to save money or was it just easier to go that way?
Re: RedHat to add at least 1000 jobs in 2012, CEO says
#10I currently work for AWS in Seattle, but am wanting to move back home to the midwest in the next 6 months or so. I want to stay relevant and involved in a cloud related job like I have now. Does anyone know if Red Hat would allow me to work for them as a consultant but out of the midwest? Any help our advice would be appreciated.