Red Hat reviews

You have to leave the company to get a raise or promotion, and then come back at a higher level. This is so common that they even have a name for it. Despite upper management's insistence to the contrary, pay is lower than it is for comparable positions elsewhere in tech. Upper management's response to the rise in the cost of living: "We're looking into it." Terrible managers with good employees end up getting promoted, but the employees end up leaving. Great lip service given to addressing burnout and well-being, but it's on the employee to just snap out of it and get back to work. Promotions are decided by a group of managers that rank their direct reports top to bottom, and if you ever gave any of them a dirty look at any point in your career, expect to never get promoted.

In non-engineering roles, expect your pay to be well below market rate. Banking on moving up the ladder in order to make up for the low starting salary? Good luck! There’s little to no transparency around career advancement, so you’ll never know how close (or far) you are from that elusive promotion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are just a few of the hottest buzzwords at Red Hat right now. Management preaches of their importance, and yet if you look around you’ll notice that a lot of teams have none of those characteristics. This is especially true the higher you go in the company hierarchy.