Red Hat reviews

Red Hat has grown too fast and is becoming too much of a big company. If you are about to be laid off from HP or AMD, you will find yourself at home at Red Hat -- which is trying to become like HP or AMD. Red Hat lost its spirit of a smaller counter-culture company, and it's trying to impose (top-down) processes for operational efficiency. The open source developers who are still employed are less and less connected to the corporate entity which is all about process formality.

Political Old guards or "connected" rule Bad behavior seems to get many promoted Very spin focused culture lacking substance Open source behavior is not happening consistently Underpays significantly and does not pay more as they quadruple your work - no regular evaluations based on continued expansion of responsibilities (this may also happen while you watch the person next to you do nothing) Very difficult to attain work life balance - all depends on your manager - 90% are not supportive of this Fast paced to the point of chaos Too much shifting priorities/roles; job can end at any moment where someone makes up a new one for you or you disappear Many managers lack professionalism and basic collegial respect to peers and underlings High drama