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      4.2

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (347 total reviews)
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      Matt Hicks

      80% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Work/Life balance

      4.3

      Culture & values

      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Senior management

      Software Engineer(Developer) employees have rated Red Hat with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 347 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer(Developer) professionals have an excellent working experience there. Red Hat is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer(Developer) professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      347 reviews
      4.0
      May 29, 2015

      Quality Engineer

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Opensource, challenging, Work life balance and culture

      Cons

      No strict process and tools. Compensation benefits not upto the mark

      5.0
      Apr 6, 2015

      Live and breath open source

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great management for the most part, it's a large company but still individual engineers have tons of ways to stand out and making sure they are recognized. Lots of interesting products to work on if you like backend stuff and infrastructure, kernel, file systems... Working with the community and collaborating with other top notch companies happens every day in every team. Remote work is embraced. Travelling to conferences is encouraged, and usually there is budget for it. Internal mobility available. Offices everywhere if you want to work all over the world remotely from a comfy chair. Low turnover, so most people working there are happy with it. Work/life balance is very respected, long hours are kind of frowned upon.

      Cons

      At times, the bar is set too low when it's hard to find a person for a particular position and teams are stuck with unproductive people. Salary is below industry average, they try make up with bonuses and stock but it doesn't work. They only get away with this because people would accept a lower salary for open source work, but we miss on great employees because of it. Hordes of new employees from proprietary software companies (Microsoft, IBM, etc..) couldn't care less about open source and culture changes internally because of it. QA department quality is sub-par. Engineering ladder has a rather low ceiling. Office kitchens are not very stocked compared to other companies (silly, I know, I know..)

      5.0
      Apr 6, 2015

      Open, friendly environment

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      working on well known products challenging environment, a lot of things to learn clever people around great work&life balance great benefits

      Cons

      In case you work in Czech republic, it is almost impossible to rellocate to more expensive country (it would lead to huge salary growth that is not supported)

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