Toxic - Senior Manager Red Hat Employee Review

1.0
Nov 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Surrounded by smart people and team member who work hard.

Cons

Many in senior management foster a toxic culture. Profess much about about open culture, meritocracy, and how different they are and at the end of the day keep to their own secret sub cultures and fiefdoms, practice heavy handed politics, get their staff to drink the Kool Aid, and wind up being worse than the big business cultures they criticized for so long. It's ironic and it's Karma they've been acquired by Big Blue.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

- Good team culture and work-life balance if you have the right management chain - Remote work if you're not close to an office - Leadership transparency and willingness to hear feedback

Cons

- Constant re-orgs without strategy are destabilizing - Manager pool is very mixed in terms of experience and skill - Poor role definition can lead to surprises at quarterly review time - Layoffs/reductions have had a chilling effect - Lower salaries compared to competitors

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