Red Hat reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,750 total reviews)
avatar

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).

Reviews by job title

5K reviews
5.0
Nov 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home Employee friendly Open source work opportunities Open work culture, sharing of information is promoted.

Cons

Frankly, could not see any major cons. Overseas transfer is very unlikely. Few administrative work need to be done by employee itself in case of any travel.

4.0
Oct 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great enviroment, its a start up that find itself as a big corp, but still keeps the same spirit. Great company to learn and grow!

Cons

The salaries are a bit lower than other vendors

5.0
Oct 28, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Open Source culture, meaning that everything is published in public repositories (like GitHub) * Transparent decision making process (in my team, at least) * Innovative and interesting tasks * Ability to work with people from around the world and exchange ideas * Most tech positions can be performed from home * Did I say Open Source culture already?

Cons

* It's not uncommon for interesting projects to get killed in favor of an acquisition (liveoak vs. feedhenry, apiman vs. 3scale, just to list the last 2 examples) * Lack of a "central architecture team" leads to the situation where the company has N solutions for the same problem, each with its own specificities and focused on a different "niche", instead of a single comprehensive solution. * NIH-syndrome is on a per-team basis, meaning that teams would usually prefer to create something from scratch rather than use something developed by another internal team. This kinda defeats the "open source culture" from the "pros". * Sometimes, it feels like the teams are too big, and that there are "too many cooks" (specially managers).

Viewing 4579 - 4581 of 4,750 Reviews

Glassdoor has 5,798 Red Hat reviews submitted anonymously by Red Hat employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Red Hat is right for you.