Red Hat reviews

4.1

80% 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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3.0
Jan 30, 2014

Interesting

Recommend
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Pros

Great Technology and training. great resources

Cons

No loyalty or job security

3.0
Jan 29, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Red Hat has some great people particularly on the technical side. They have develop some great solutions and technologies that have change the market place certainly with Linux Red Hat and Jboss. Great place to be if you are developer. Lots of good interesting projects to get involved with. New ways of thinking and a real chance to develop your skill set to your own benefit.

Cons

Red Hat are making that transition from startup to enterprise, certain people cannot make that change and are holding the company back. Expect to be micro managed, expect a culture of blame down from some managers to their team and individual contributors. The company wastes a lot of time on reporting who is doing what, so much so that they are wasting huge amount of resources doing so. There is a strong sense of dis-jointment between the sales and the rest of the organisation. As a smaller enterprise there is a lot of favouritism that goes within the organisation. If you are not one of the favourites do not expect much chance of career progression and be prepare used to further the career of others.

5.0
Jan 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Red Hat has a strong commitment to open-source software. It contributes to the advancement of technology around the world, allowing people to build atop the work of others to produce products and solutions greater than the sum of their parts. The corporate culture is by far the finest I have experienced. The culture of collaboration permeates every level of the business.

Cons

Red Hat's salaries do not always measure up to the giants of Silicon Valley. The work-life balance can sometimes be difficult to maintain, as everyone in engineering performs multiple jobs. Red Hat can be stingy at times, such as requiring employees to room together on business trips.

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