Turning into full IBM, will be dead/assimilated soon. - Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

1.0
Jun 22, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Still slightly independent and stewards of amazing technologies. People who were here pre-acquisition really are a family of colleagues working together with an open source mission and passion like nothing you'll likely ever see elsewhere in a public company.

Cons

IBM and C-level leadership is inept, slowly assimilating Red Hat culture to the IBM way, and soon Red Hat will be nothing more than an empty shell of IBM ineffective bureaucracy and bloat. Sun Microsystems meets Oracle all over again. Newer employees are being treated more like cogs in the machine via the IBM handbook and comradery is declining. You could lose your job at any point because IBM financially engineered a disaster.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Quite of freedom to explore and experiments

Cons

Reorgs are quite often lately

3.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

Bluewashing is real. After 4 years past acquisition it is not Open Decision company anymore. There is no clear communication about the direction where the company goes, some departments were moved to IBM without clear explanation why. Promotion process that was clear before is gone, and now your salary increase or promotion are directly depend on your relationship with the manager and not from your contribution to the team or the product.

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