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4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,757 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 4,757 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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1.0
Aug 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Freedom and open culture - You get to choose the technologies you want to work with - Work with lot of smart people - Good learning

Cons

- Really bad senior management (especially in bangalore). They care only the people they like and insult everybody else. Some people enjoy by doing nothing since they have the blessings of the senior. - Promotions/hikes will be based how much the manager likes you instead of what work you have done. - Beware of the terms 'upstream first' and 'open source'. Some senior people think having the repository in github makes the project open source(no public announcements, no documentation, no community). The developer is not allowed to about it public. This totally opposite of what Red Hat claims to be. - Useless side projects will get more attention(from management) than a mainstream project. - HR is only name shake, they don't know people's problems.

1.0
Aug 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to learn. Good Pantry, Cafeteria. Very good exposure to open source. Active IT and GWS teams.

Cons

too much favoritism. Random people come in and gets name on your work. A senior manager from Pune, who promotes only people from Pune and send his favorite people to all conferences that happens abroad. Have to face lot of internal dirty politics

5.0
Aug 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Employee- friendly, ambitious, original company based on innovative approach to doing IT business. Its opensource mission make it attractive for clever and extraordinary people globally. Excellent opportunities to learn, grow and have impact on the development of IT business.

Cons

Quick growth results in inner fight between being open community based organisation and standard US IT corporation with cemented internal structure and distant command-control center in the US... There is a threath that at some point the open organisation philosophy of the company will be turned to pure marketing.

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