Red Hat reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,739 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 4,739 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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2.0
Jul 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Some really smart people doing really good work for customers. Front line employees always willing to share knowledge and go the extra mile for customers and others within the organization.

Cons

It took several years but the acquisition by IBM has ruined what Red Hat once was. Unrealistic targets based on incessant need for growth rather than based on real world numbers or data. Red Hat never even broached the subject of a resource action prior to the IBM acquisition and now those left need to get used to the IBM approach of at least two RA's per year. This place is a pressure cooker ready to explode due to quarter to quarter unrealistic targets. Senior management is feeling the enormous pressure and have been flailing about for the last year. Their only response has been to push the pressure down to the people doing the real work and if that doesn't work start letting people go. There now are much better places to work where your contributions will be more valued.

1.0
Jun 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Still slightly independent and stewards of amazing technologies. People who were here pre-acquisition really are a family of colleagues working together with an open source mission and passion like nothing you'll likely ever see elsewhere in a public company.

Cons

IBM and C-level leadership is inept, slowly assimilating Red Hat culture to the IBM way, and soon Red Hat will be nothing more than an empty shell of IBM ineffective bureaucracy and bloat. Sun Microsystems meets Oracle all over again. Newer employees are being treated more like cogs in the machine via the IBM handbook and comradery is declining. You could lose your job at any point because IBM financially engineered a disaster.

3.0
Mar 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

From a pay/benefits perspective, Red Hat is excellent: affordable insurance options, extra company recharge days, paid parental leave, flexible WFH options, bonuses paid quarterly, tuition reimbursement, and even free employee access to Red Hat training and certification exams.

Cons

There are a lot of people who get roles that don't suit their expertise/background, internal roles go to someone who knows somebody, rather than the most qualified or for added diversity. This makes for messy and ineffective plans and execution. The company is matrixed and segmented in weird ways that oftentimes seem illogical for productivity and efficiency. Change management is atrocious and there are always several business shifting changes that occur each quarter before the last load of changes had a chance to be adopted. This has resulted is mass turnover. Now there are enormous gaps in tribal knowledge, because nobody documents anything, but if they did it would be outdated. So much of the work is spinning wheels because the business won't allow to slow-down and address systemic and root cause problems. Everything is just push through and survive to the next round of changes. And forget about measuring for success, reflecting on efficacy or ROI.

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