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      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

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      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      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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      5K reviews
      5.0
      Dec 12, 2013

      Awesome Company!! Get paid to be part of the solutions not the problem.

      Senior solutions architect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Every open-minded and creative culture. Truly values their employees. After all opensource is about community. Redhat even as a gowning company keep the core values of source strong.

      Cons

      Very tech savy company. Those that like to use MS word and Outlook for mail may find it quite different.

      4.0
      Dec 11, 2013

      Great people, great company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Employees are very passionate about open source, transparency, meritocracy, collaboration, etc. 2. Employees understand and articulate the company values and hold each other accountable to them. 3. Everyone is willing to pitch in to help solve a problem. This sometimes results in 'too many cooks in the kitchen', but the eagerness to help creates a very supportive environment. 4. Smart people who know their jobs. Technical expertise in most functions is very high.

      Cons

      As others have mentioned, pay is not up to industry standard. Red Hat has had extraordinary growth, and it becomes increasingly hard to justify lack of raises and low salaries to the employees, given the profitability of the company. Career mobility is limited in certain departments and is very manager-dependent. A bad manager can kill a subordinate's career. Hasn't happened to me (fortunately), but I've seen this a lot. Speaking of which, we have some good managers, but we have a lot of BAD people managers. The skills that it takes to be a good engineer, software developer, lawyer, accountant, etc are a very different from the soft skills needed to manage people. Our HR is too focused on managers filling out forms as opposed to giving them real training on how to appropriately manage people.

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