Red Hat reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,744 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 4,744 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
Aug 20, 2012

Corporate America

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Pros

Open Source. Lots of good people. Plenty of room for growth. Lots of offices, so you can move where you like. In tech circles, there is a certain amount of sex appeal. I.e. for a large multinational IT corporate, Red Hat has a lot better rep than Microsoft. Great servers, good pay, and lots of perks.

Cons

While we're technically "open source", we're not really. The business model is, put out great software with crappy documentation, then sell services. For my money, if I were starting a business, I'd go CentOS. Mind you, Red Hat is a necessary evil. CentOS wouldn't exist if someone didn't pay Red Hat to continually improve their product. If you hear "open source" and think cutting edge and open, go somewhere else. Red Hat is a major corporation and it's run like one.

5.0
Aug 14, 2012

Fantastic place to work at!

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Pros

You get to work with the brightest people in the IT industry. Pay is not bad and your get to work with fantastic open source software.

Cons

Internal process is not well defined.

5.0
Aug 6, 2012

One of the best organizations I've worked at

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Freedom passion drive and energy

Cons

Challenging to find your way initially

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