Red Hat reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,755 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 4,755 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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3.0
May 20, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I had terrific relationships with all roles, across all of my product teams -- product management, program management, engineering. There are a lot of different technologies, each with their own culture quirks and technology focus, so you can find a niche that matches your strengths.

Cons

Content services (documentation) management is across the board terrible. The director and several managers have no experience in documentation at all, which leads to a ton of quality and team management issues. Additionally, not a single manager has any real people management experience, which has created problems with low-performing employees, retaining (and recognizing) high quality employees, and recruiting, hiring, and training. This creates an atmosphere were senior writers, particularly, are overworked and stressed, and the doc team has a poor reputation with other groups. I would strongly discourage anyone from working in the documentation group, in pretty much any capacity.

2.0
May 18, 2016

Negative leadership changes

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from home days, flexible start times, friendly colleagues.

Cons

Recent leadership changes, unresponsive managers, some socially inapt. It used to be a great company to work for, not much left of Freedom, Courage, Accountability. After nearly ten years at the company I had to chase a work reference that had been promised to me. My manager ignored all emails, only HR helped (had to basically write my own reference), but no apology, explanation or response by manager. Appalling behaviour.

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