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      4.1

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (4,742 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 4,742 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
      4.0
      Feb 25, 2010

      Inspiring, fun place to work... but burn-out levels are high.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      You get to work with awesome people (for the most part), and you get to do work that's interesting. A lot of respect for intelligent people, and you're encouraged to work on your own project ideas.

      Cons

      Can be mentally exhausting. Hard to not work 70 hour weeks. Always pressure to be bigger, better, more, greater. No work-life balance allowed.

      4.0
      Feb 17, 2010

      A

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Attendance to Technical and Sales Training encouraged Generous Stock Grants are given each year of employment Brand name is recognized with potentila customers

      Cons

      Reliance on Red Hat Linux subscriptions to provide to much of revenues Religious devoting to opensource rather than recognizing what types of software are best served by an open spurce community

      3.0
      Jan 19, 2010

      Great place to work BUT senior management gets in the way of progress.

      Senior marketing manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Culture drives proactive, results-driven behavior. Focus on independent actions and individual accountability. Reasonably flexible work environment.

      Cons

      Need fresh blood esp in management. "Old Guard" is suffocating and has lead to nepotism. Change is slow coming and hard won. For a still small-ish company, compared to competitors like Oracle, MSFT, and IBM, the politics are astounding. Poor, ineffective managers are allowed to continue in their rolls without being replaced or re-trained.

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