Red Hat reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,748 total reviews)
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Matt Hicks

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Red Hat has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 4,748 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Red Hat employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Oct 15, 2014
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Pros

Fast paced, friendly, cutting-edge technology, exceptional space for company growth, competitive pay and benefits, the ability to offer your technology customers valuable options.

Cons

Kludgy processes lead to a rudderless feel. Countless, mis-matched internal tools create a massive time suck. Internal policies are poorly communicated. Management promotions appear to be based on seniority and/or nepotism vs. qualifications. Managers are rewarded for instituting/perpetuating a status-quo culture- despite a company mission directly counter to such behavior. Too many 'what the heck does that job title mean' jobs being created, indicating mission creep/ turf growth...

4.0
Oct 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Through my time at Red-Hat I worked in more than one site. The transition betwen the sites was quite smooth. The folks are very professional, you can learn a lot, even as experienced sofrware engineer. You can get expoesed to latest trends and technologies, aspecially in upstream (open source) version of the projects, depends which project of course.

Cons

I think the salary reviews should be formalized, they are not tightly coupled with the employee assessment process, so in some sense it gives us employee less motivation to invest in these assessment processes. For senior engineers who are already "deep in the system" it may be a bit hard to switch in the project to do something else (but there are examples when people actually did that) - sometimes it's a matter of the engineer taking an intiative , invest extra time, and perform the shift after showing results - but I think management should encourage this more. Red-Hat is also an amazing place ify ou're a remotee and don't have a thriving IT industry near you - we have excellent engineers in places like little vilages in their home countries, and countries where the IT industry is not thriving.

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