Red Hat reviews

Frank Calderoni, the new CFO, is changing the culture for the worse. He is bloating management layers and switching the mindset to a big/ bureaucratic culture. Everything to him is a number, including people. His steady push to layoff people in the US and hire in low cost regions is negatively affecting employee morale. The company currently has positive momentum so it will continue doing well in the market but the effects of Frank's decisions may come to haunt the company soon.

No executive-level leadership at this company anymore, only senior management. Current CEO has no experience leading, despite telling the same repeated story about the importance of good leadership. He spends more effort on appearance and delivering his (vague, confused) message than actually making sound business decisions. Priorities change every 3-6 months, leaving customers hanging out to dry. Consulting has to constantly smooth-over relationships with customers after products are started and dropped a year later. Growing problem of not-in-house mentality for product development. So many failed astroturf attempts to bootstrap open source communities around projects that only matter to Red Hat. Decisionmakers seem to have no accountability for bad decisions. I know cases where significant decisions were made with zero data simply because the decisionmaker didn't want to bother.