Your experience here depends on your manager - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
Nov 24, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers, flexibility, senior management is approachable, good benefits, internal mobility

Cons

Immediate managers were horrible and incompetent and played favorites, Sales was a good ol boys club, company was still small enough that everyone knew everyone else's business (although environment was getting more corporate that this was reduced when I left) If the bad manager component was taken out, Red Hat would be a great employer to work for. However, since I had to deal w/ my manager daily all day, the bad manager factor eventually overcame all of the other benefits.

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