Red Hat reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,742 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 4,742 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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5.0
Dec 13, 2012

A place full of bright and exciting people.

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Pros

Lots of people with sharp minds and interesting ideas. Associates are strongly encouraged to work in community, share information, discuss ideas and step up.

Cons

All places have bad apples, if you know what I mean...

5.0
Dec 13, 2012

Best Company I've Worked for

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Pros

Red Hat has a great culture. They value everyone's opinion no matter their title. People here have strong opinions and are respectful of others' opinions--in fact, they expect you to voice yours. After all, this is a open-source software company. Community and diverse opinions often lead to better products. In addition, the benefits, salaries, and bonuses are great. They may not be the highest in the world, but they're certainly trying to make each employee feel valued. My manager and his peers are often very encouraging of my work and welcoming of new, fresh ideas. In fact, they go out of their way to reward you. I've been in companies where hierarchy was more important, and salaries and bonuses were based on quantitative results (rather than qualitative). There are many huge company events, team events, extracurricular activities (sponsored soccer teams, etc.) and clubs to join. Free food & snacks. Upper Management/Execs are approachable and don't carry the elitist stigma. Once you're an employee, they continue to try and make sure you're happy and on a path to success. If this includes moving to another team, picking up new skills, or moving to another city (remote or not) then they'll make sure it happens.

Cons

You get thrown in to the mix quickly and are expected to swim. If you're on the right team (which is most teams, but not all), you'll have several helping hands. The Brand team sticks to themselves and is often unaware (and doesn't care) that there are other experienced designers in the company. For non-designers, this may not be an issue. Every other team that I have worked with has been awesome and accommodating.

2.0
Dec 12, 2012
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Pros

I believe the overall company is a good one and the environment seems to be positive outside of IT. I like the company's mission and how they seem to be executing on it.

Cons

The IT department in the company seems to be exclusively concerned with covering the ass of upper management. Even the simplest technical problems are solved with the addition of more process on an already overly burdened system. While I was there, the IT department was rife with blatant nepotism and conflicts of interest. Even those that prove that they are toxic for the company are simply moved to other areas of IT and not terminated. Worse, the process has been shown to cause outages, yet the answer is to add more process. Between this blind pursuit of process and the toxic working environment, I am glad to be out of there and would never recommend anyone work in Red Hat IT.

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