Red Hat reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,750 total reviews)
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Matt Hicks

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Red Hat has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 4,750 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Red Hat employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Aug 26, 2008
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Pros

If you believe in Open Source, Red Hat is a great place for you. Most of the engineers are hard core open source idealists and they will argue with you all day long for it. Open source is a religion and a movement that many Red Hat employees hold true to their hearts and if you believe in open source, you will feel like you are fighting for a cause. In addition, Raleigh, NC is a great place to raise a family, with great infrastructure, good school, universities, hospitals and most southerners are friendly. You also have some other good employers in the area, such as IBM, Lenovo, Netsuite, SAS etc.

Cons

A lot of internal politics and Open Source is seens as a religion within the organization that sometimes people lose sight of the business. For example, many insist on using Open Source technologies internally without actually thinking about the business requirements and how mature some of these open source technologies are at the expense of employee productivity. In addition, internal politics abound in this place. You see managers fighting all the time and silos within this relatively young company. Many of the managers make decisions based on what is best of themselves personally, rather than what is best for the company.

4.0
Apr 7, 2026

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Pros

Fantastic colleagues who really go the extra mile to help if needed. Still possible to have a fairly ok life/work balance, but it is getting tighter. The compensation is also quite ok.

Cons

The culture has deteriorated during my 7 year tenure and you get the feeling more and more that you are only a number in an excel. If it was not for an exellent manager (who is stretched to the breaking point) i would probably be looking for an alternative.

4.0
Apr 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great and open collaborative culture. Excellent benefits and good technology. People in the trenches care about open source and value. Lots of community driven activities

Cons

Lots of turnover in sales. Unreasonable growth expectations Lack of business context purely tech focus sales motions. Business value is confused with financial value

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