Red Hat: Ideal vs Actual - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

3.0
Dec 8, 2017
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.

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