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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

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      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      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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      3.0
      Dec 8, 2017

      Red Hat: Ideal vs Actual

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The company's ideals are amazing (open source principals).

      Cons

      Implementation of ideals were not congruent with ideals. People team (HR) stifled career growth (both compensation wise and responsibility wise) and had layers of micromanagement. Many employees were not actually skilled (poor hiring practices) and were in positions of power simply by virtue of being there during high growth. They were afraid of being exposed and would hide their incompetence behind micromanagement and fear based leadership styles.

      3.0
      Dec 23, 2016

      Once a model of greatness - but no longer

      Manager
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      Pros

      Opportunity to work with diverse cultures and good hearted, brilliant people daily. Equity rewards (RSU) program was very good. Work required creative problem solving and the best solutions for the company came from meritocracy. Despite its large size, the old Red Hat was a family that cared about its employees.

      Cons

      The Frank Caleroni era will go down as the most destructive period in the company's history. Over a mere 18 months, many of the company's brightest leaders were driven out of the organization and replaced by big company groupthinkers who tried to apply a huge company bureaucracy to a thriving, unique mid-sized company in growth phase. In addition, this leadership has actively eliminated US jobs and shipped the work to India. Predictably Red Hat is now facing operational problems that other large companies experienced 10 years ago with this strategy. The once thriving culture has degraded from "I work someplace special" to "this is just another job at a faceless big corporate company."

      1.0
      Jan 20, 2020

      Ludicrously bad!

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      I did not find any that are worth sharing.

      Cons

      The place is ridiculously bad, in every aspect. I left after a short stint on peaceful terms. I was told the smart ones left a year or two ago and the idiots were left behind, and I concur from my experience.

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