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4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,738 total reviews)
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Matt Hicks

77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Red Hat has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 4,738 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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1.0
Nov 28, 2019

Toxic

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Pros

Surrounded by smart people and team member who work hard.

Cons

Many in senior management foster a toxic culture. Profess much about about open culture, meritocracy, and how different they are and at the end of the day keep to their own secret sub cultures and fiefdoms, practice heavy handed politics, get their staff to drink the Kool Aid, and wind up being worse than the big business cultures they criticized for so long. It's ironic and it's Karma they've been acquired by Big Blue.

1.0
Nov 14, 2018
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Pros

Red Hat has been purchased by a World Class Corporation so the employees that were hired based on merit vs nepotism have an opportunity to actually use their skills.

Cons

I am simply amazed by the arrogance of the Red Hat employees. They seem to think that they have come up with the incredible technology that they have literally stolen from baby geeks to awe struck to realize they are being taken advantage of. Shame on you Red Hat. Why are all these market analysts predicting IBM will take a hit? What reality are they in? THINK. This is the best thing that has ever happened to Red Hat. Of course, most of the employees will be laid off and replaced by offshore workers or "new collar" workers. Configuration is simply not as difficult as the more "SR" team members like to make it out (that's just their egos). Welcome to the Borg folks. You are much more replaceable than you and your foolish friends believe. I find the majority of the reviews here comical and if you do your homework you'll find some articles out there about Red Hat's demand for loyalty. Thus all the kissing up. You can cool your jets. IBM has actual ethics and tracks your value add vs lip service. The word Meritocracy was thrown around a lot at Red Hat but this only equates to Mediocrity after all the nepotism. I've never encountered such a lack of original thinking and innovation (not to mention integrity). Why the attitude and pretension? These people are truly entertaining with their "humility". I am looking forward to watching the sale of Red Hat to IBM play out in the coming months.

2.0
Mar 15, 2017

Look elsewhere

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Pros

Work from home option. Thats about it.

Cons

Low pay. Lack of promotional opportunities. People without actual leadership skills (or in some cases basic common sense) get put into management positions. Post-sales customer engagement organization (using that term loosely) is so badly managed that they cannot get out of their own way. No synchronization between teams. No consistency in execution. No accountability. Leadership is ambivalent and doesn't really lead. Individual contributors in this organization are largely frustrated. The Open Organization is a façade.

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