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Senior Operations Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Wikimedia Foundation for 4 years
April 24, 2017
Rome, Italy
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Pros

Seriously, the point of my review title.

Working every day knowing you're helping everyone around the world use a great, free, uncensored, and mostly balanced source of information and education is priceless.

You don't end the day feeling you earned a lot of money for some billionaire.

There is a not-so-small bunch of world-class engineers you can work closely with.

You are given a lot of independence and you will definitely make a difference every day, if you're willing to put in the effort.

Almost everyone is really passionate and is really on board with the mission.

A lot of awesome people in the community you will interact with.

Free-software only is a given, not a consequence.

Being remote rocks.

Cons

At least in my case, crazy work-hours.

Not everything works flawlessly internally.

We are constrained in what we can do by obvious budgetary reasons.

Management has been disastrous for a long time, but it is much better now.

Advice to Management

No need to give advice on Glassdoor. Whenever I have an issue, I feel confident I can bring it up without fear of retaliation or anything.

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