Majorly Disappointing So Much Potential - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
Aug 28, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Seem to care about staff. Handled Covid very well. Neat culture, but close to brainwashing. Lack of red tape in some areas. Can get stuff done!

Cons

Very strange mgt approach. At times micro manage yet there's hardly any top down mgt. This causes massive and I mean massive issues. Lack of processes, lack of adoption, lack of roles and responsibilities, blurred lines. If people are not empowerd to make change it won't happen. Period. Staff over worked doing the roles of about 6 different people at times. Not handling growth in some depts well at all. You will continue to have turnover if you dont stop over working people. Don't only trust middle mgt to voice their teams are in desperate need of help. Some of these people in mgt have no clue what it takes to properly support a specific type of team and won't recognize where help is needed. My first place where mgt is extremely incompetent in some depts. Some super smart people yet also have some of the dumbest people in charge with literally no past experience managing what they are managing. They didn't even work their way up so literally are clueless. Shocked at the number of spreadsheets for such a high tech company.

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