Look elsewhere - Individual Contributor Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
Mar 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home option. Thats about it.

Cons

Low pay. Lack of promotional opportunities. People without actual leadership skills (or in some cases basic common sense) get put into management positions. Post-sales customer engagement organization (using that term loosely) is so badly managed that they cannot get out of their own way. No synchronization between teams. No consistency in execution. No accountability. Leadership is ambivalent and doesn't really lead. Individual contributors in this organization are largely frustrated. The Open Organization is a façade.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

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