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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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2.0
Aug 29, 2018

Great Company Culture if You are Looking for a Retirement Home

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Pros

Open Culture: communication here is open and encouraged. Flexible work schedule: most team allows flexible work schedule and environment to accommodate personal needs Nice people: people here are nice in general

Cons

Middle Management: layers on top of layers of management, sometimes very incompetent once. RH keeps people around simply because they have been here for 10+ years, but not for their capabilities. Very inefficient management style Complacency: people around you are most likely ambitionless and have no drive to go above and beyond. They are okay with taking the paycheck and raise their families. Lack of innovation: if you are looking for somewhere with innovation and do research, RH is not it. 2 thirds of the company is sales and marketing. Very few people are actually on the product side. There is no true agile product management because the products are developed upstream, RH is merely a downstream package center to put on a quality assurance stamp on for enterprise level customers.

1.0
Mar 24, 2018

UI designers be cautious

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Pros

- Decent work life balance - Smart people - Flex schedule

Cons

- No communication, presence, transparency, support or direction from the senior management/leadership with the team. - Leadership is not evangelizing or bringing strategy for design, to grow design within the company. You will hit a wall quickly here. - Little opportunity for growth, advancement or creativity - Too much micromanagement and favoritism - Chaos and blame are rampant - Team work is not encouraged - Unethical behaviors are not properly addressed and are tolerated Don't buy their philosophy on being an open meritocracy, the group and company operate nothing close to that. The company culture is not what it was meant to be. Not only are they not open, they don't know how to operate in a productive hierarchal structure either. Lack of leadership, direction and actual management skills is prevalent. It's a very unsatisfying group to work in. Very disappointed because if the team was run well by senior management, this could have been an amazing place to work. If you are looking to really be part of a product, be appreciated for your work in a group that fully understands and appreciates user experience, beyond the pixels, you should keep looking.

3.0
Aug 5, 2014

Lots of growth, lots of promise, lots of dysfunction

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Pros

Incredible scope to seize opportunities, grow with new and emerging projects. Open source is amazing. A lot of the people are great, super smart and committed. I had an amazing tenure here, but got out when the politics started getting to me.

Cons

Company is full of turds: underqualified hacks who have been with the company for over 10 years and promoted way above their capabilities, and recent refugees from big companies like Microsoft, Oracle, EMC who Red Hat thought they needed to legitimize themselves as they grew bigger but are just a bunch of dead weight. Political infighting like you wouldn't believe. If you can avoid the land mines, the toxic people, and the zombie projects you can get things done, but it's not the company it was three years ago.

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