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      Linaro Reviews

      4.1

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (37 total reviews)
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      Li Gong

      75% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Diversity and inclusion

      4.4

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Culture and values

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Linaro has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 37 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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      37 reviews
      5.0
      22 Jun 2026

      Strong open source focus that values upstream maintainership

      Senior technical lead
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Strong open source focus with project maintainership at the core of the engineering. Works with core enabling technologies across a whole range of deployment types. Highly skilled engineers and well respected in the wider open source eco-system.

      Cons

      Finances at the whim of the member companies and has struggled to maintain consistent funding over a number of years.

      5.0
      9 May 2023

      An open source company the really works upstream

      Tech lead
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Linaro are an excellent company for engineers who are interested in working with upstream open source communities. Almost all of Linaro's projects are either upstream or working with one of Linaro's own open source projects. Engineers are generally given a lot of latitude to work on what is needed to achieve the overall organisational goals.

      Cons

      Currently the main funding for Linaro comes from a small pool of members who contribute to the engineering costs via fairly substantial membership fees. This can lead frustration sometimes in how to demonstrate tangible benefits to those members for work they can take "for free". Enticing collaboration out of members (rather than just watching Linaro engineers do all the lifting from the sidelines) can also be rather painful.

      5.0
      9 Mar 2023

      A great company to work for if you love open-source softwares

      Principal engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Linaro is a great company to work for, Main benefits are * Working with lot of open-source projects and top partners like Qualcomm, Microsoft, Arm etc. * Lean process. You can make a real difference if you want. No unnecessary process etc. going to get in your way. * Flexible - You can work from anywhere and teams are globally distributed * Opportunity to work on multiple projects and make a real impact * Travel - Lots of opportunities to travel - open source conferences, partner meetings, Linaro connect etc.

      Cons

      * Distributed teams, so if you want to be in office with your colleagues probably not a good fit for most jobs in linaro * You have to be motivated to work, no one is going to be behind you all the time to make you work.

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