Linaro Reviews

4.1

85% would recommend to a friend

(36 total reviews)
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Li Gong

87% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Linaro has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 36 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Linaro 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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36 reviews
3.0
30 Jan 2018

Zero transparency

Recommend
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Pros

Amazing opportunities to focus on open source software projects that most companies would not properly support. Core teams staffed with strong engineers and peer relationships are good. Mostly remote employees, which is a pro if you're looking for that. From a technical point of view, this company is one of a kind. Their entire premise is to pick up the pieces of the FOSS community that aren't being properly addressed by competing for-profit companies. Only Google, Redhat, IBM and a few others afford such opportunities.

Cons

Management either doesn't have a plan or doesn't share it. Lied for years about being a non-profit when they were not. Membership model is unsustainable leading to concern and paranoia about the health of the business amongst the rank and file. CEO only seems to care about whatever pet project is being run by him, which changes annually. Zero career progression. Engineering roles are a job, not a career. Mgmt/director track seems very separate from engineering track. Prefer to fill new director and senior mgmt positions with outside hires. For an all-remote company, does not try to foster "watercooler" talk or other social necessities. Co-workers need a way to socialize outside of the context of code review or status update meetings. A #random Slack channel or really anything with emojis would be a good start.

1.0
19 June 2019
Recommend
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Pros

1. Work from home and flexibility might appeal to some 2. Open source projects almost exclusively with 90% of the work in Linux and Android. Not much other than that 3. Very capable engineers

Cons

1. No career progression. One can be a kernel hacker for 5 years (which some want) but that more and more work with no increase in profile and pay 2. No clear business and service plan. Collaboration is not a correct word its more of service for which members have to join Linaro (like a club) and pay money for the privilege. Some other reviews point to this as well. But this is not sustainable as the recent financial difficulties have proved 4. Mass layoff and reduction recently.

1.0
25 June 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Flexible, work from home policy. 2. Travel opportunities. 3. Flexible vacation policy.

Cons

1. Zero opportunity to grow. No career path defined. Even talking about career growth is actively discouraged by senior management. 2. Collaboration among internal engineers and team is non-existent. You are left to work and figure out issues by yourself even if someone else has gone through it before.

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