Is Red Hat a good company to work for?

Red Hat has an overall rating of 4.1 out of 5, based on over 5,798 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months. 81% of employees would recommend working at Red Hat to a friend and 68% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Red Hat have been left by employees working as Inside Sales Representative , Market Development Representative and Software Engineering Intern .

Does Red Hat pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Red Hat employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Red Hat. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Red Hat?

81% of Red Hat employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Red Hat 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Red Hat?

Software Engineer (352) , Senior Software Engineer (255) , Technical Support Engineer (107) , Principal Software Engineer (88) , Solutions Architect (87) , Senior Consultant (84) , Intern (82) , Consultant (81) , Associate Software Engineer (71) , Manager (71) , Account Executive (59) , Project Manager (55) , Sales (55) , Account Manager (53) , Inside Sales Representative (51)

What are the pros of working at Red Hat according to real employee reviews?

"Red Hat has a great culture as you would expect from a company that founded it's roots in open source." ((in 812 reviews)); "workers are great people and good to work with on a daily basis." ((in 445 reviews)); "Good work life balance and brand name" ((in 348 reviews)); "Good benefit and beyond market pay" ((in 206 reviews)); "Work culture is good and supportive" ((in 138 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Red Hat according to real employee reviews?

"Low salaries comparing to other companies but the quarterly bonuses kind of make it tie." ((in 190 reviews)); "bad management" ((in 157 reviews)); "the only drawback is that the quality of management isn't universally vetted and a bad manager can ruin your experience" ((in 103 reviews)); "Senior leadership for the most part is inexperienced in their roles." ((in 66 reviews)); "Average or below average compensation" ((in 59 reviews))

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4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,750 total reviews)

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76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

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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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4.0

Oct 14, 2014

Review of a senior software engineer - more than 4 years in Red-Hat

Senior software engineer

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Pros

Through my time at Red-Hat I worked in more than one site. The transition betwen the sites was quite smooth. The folks are very professional, you can learn a lot, even as experienced sofrware engineer. You can get expoesed to latest trends and technologies, aspecially in upstream (open source) version of the projects, depends which project of course.

Cons

I think the salary reviews should be formalized, they are not tightly coupled with the employee assessment process, so in some sense it gives us employee less motivation to invest in these assessment processes. For senior engineers who are already "deep in the system" it may be a bit hard to switch in the project to do something else (but there are examples when people actually did that) - sometimes it's a matter of the engineer taking an intiative , invest extra time, and perform the shift after showing results - but I think management should encourage this more. Red-Hat is also an amazing place ify ou're a remotee and don't have a thriving IT industry near you - we have excellent engineers in places like little vilages in their home countries, and countries where the IT industry is not thriving.

1.0

Oct 10, 2014

Worst ever in a 15 years' span

Inside sales representative

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Career development only if you get under someone's wings

Cons

The Company is filled-up with people that only are thinking of retaining their actual place, no desire in developing the newcomers into other positions

2.0

Oct 8, 2014

Good for gaining knowledge but overall RH is loosing its stature

Technical support engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Will get to learn a lot in a very less period of time. - Get to know best minds around you and will get to learn a lot from them. - Salary is transparent. You get all the components mentioned in your CTC unlike project based companies like TCS, Wipro, Infosys where they slash huge amount from your CTC.

Cons

- Management performing a lot of experiments with their policies with mere hit-and-trial method. - Management is more bothered about the figures and reports rather than the technical growth of the employees. - They are not able to hire resources with requisite skills as it would need them to spend more money. - Salary structure is not appropriate and not competent to the market. And that is the reason good minds are leaving the organization. - Employees are asked to work on Public holidays. Working on a public holiday is paid but still it is by force, not by choice. - Micro management - Some of the people getting promoted on the basis of number of years spent in the organization, even though they are not suitable for that appropriate role. - Very less or negligible managers with technical skills.

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