Red Hat Software Developer reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(346 total reviews)
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Matt Hicks

78% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Red Hat with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 346 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Red Hat is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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346 reviews
5.0
Apr 6, 2015

Live and breath open source

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Pros

Great management for the most part, it's a large company but still individual engineers have tons of ways to stand out and making sure they are recognized. Lots of interesting products to work on if you like backend stuff and infrastructure, kernel, file systems... Working with the community and collaborating with other top notch companies happens every day in every team. Remote work is embraced. Travelling to conferences is encouraged, and usually there is budget for it. Internal mobility available. Offices everywhere if you want to work all over the world remotely from a comfy chair. Low turnover, so most people working there are happy with it. Work/life balance is very respected, long hours are kind of frowned upon.

Cons

At times, the bar is set too low when it's hard to find a person for a particular position and teams are stuck with unproductive people. Salary is below industry average, they try make up with bonuses and stock but it doesn't work. They only get away with this because people would accept a lower salary for open source work, but we miss on great employees because of it. Hordes of new employees from proprietary software companies (Microsoft, IBM, etc..) couldn't care less about open source and culture changes internally because of it. QA department quality is sub-par. Engineering ladder has a rather low ceiling. Office kitchens are not very stocked compared to other companies (silly, I know, I know..)

5.0
Apr 6, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

working on well known products challenging environment, a lot of things to learn clever people around great work&life balance great benefits

Cons

In case you work in Czech republic, it is almost impossible to rellocate to more expensive country (it would lead to huge salary growth that is not supported)

4.0
Dec 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Red Hat provides the opportunity to get involved with a lot of very high profile technology at very interesting customer sites

Cons

Red Hat does not typically share what is going on with tools developers write with the developers, and seems to be a sales-dominated culture. Employees can be underpaid if they do not stick up for themselves.

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