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      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

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      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      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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      5K reviews
      4.0
      May 15, 2014

      Overall great experience!

      Enterprise account executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Great work/life balance. The company has gone through a lot of growing pains, but still cares about the employees and culture. Still maintains the open source culture, which is not buttoned up and much more relaxed. Very collaborative environment, you build very good friendships here. Not micromanaged.

      Cons

      Finance and engineering run company still. Also very political. Promotions are not always given on merit, but instead on who your friend is.

      3.0
      May 13, 2014

      Red Hat great place to work

      Product marketing manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great atmosphere with developers and people at grassroots who believe in the journey as they don't translate the vision from management and create their own. A loving family of people who care for their own.

      Cons

      Too many ineffective middle managers as well as people who don't embrace being open.

      1.0
      May 6, 2014

      Got to to be in the "in crowd" to do interesting work and get promotion, and watch your back

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working remotely means you don't have to meet any of the "egos" personally. It is good to work for a company where everything is open source, from your desktop, mail client/developer tools, to the code you're developing or supporting. This makes a refreshing change from proprietary companies.

      Cons

      If you work remotely be prepared to get routinely passed over for everything, not in the office means you're effectively invisible. Much of the engineering work is just bug fixing, even principal developers seem to do little else. If you want the interesting development work, you have to do something to be noticed, and then be prepared to back stab your way through the queue of people for that coveted work. Then you'll invariably have to deal with the egos, and Red Hat has a lot of engineers with ego problems. Work-life balance can be frustrating. I often get to work past midnight. Not that you'll spend the entire time working, rather waiting for the baroque bureaucracy to complete. Personal growth: zero.

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