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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

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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1.0
May 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Cutting Edge place to work

Cons

Management pays lip service to their employees, as management belief is there is a never ending resource so a younger person could be trained to replace you. You will be paid 10 to 30 thousand dollars less then other companies. Global services has many issues and is very dysfunctional, for a professional service organization. People have been moved to other countries to take promotion only to find out when in country they have taken a lesser role , since some one else has that job. Also past employees it took two years to get their expense report taken care of. Small company , so there is very little internal infrastructure to support gs org. No funding for infrastructure, so most back office task are handle by hand , on 4 to 5 different silo of data. Learning on the fly is lip server to the dysfunction of the organization, as the people are sharp to over come.

4.0
Mar 18, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The work environment is great, people are passionate and care. On top of that the level of competency is high for employees. The company respects employees personal time and projects are managed well, it's rare that something will require working very late or on weekends. Working here it's easy to have a good life/work balance.

Cons

Problems are not overly interesting, large portion of work is maintenance related, so you will spend a significant portion of time doing bug fixes instead of developing new code. Compensation is lower than I have seen at other companies.

3.0
Mar 10, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good company for learning about and participating in open source. Lots of room for creativity. Salaries are competitive when you negotiate. Benefits are reasonable. The company is filled with a variety of top-notch developers and creative thinkers all over the world which really makes for a diverse group.

Cons

Benefits seem to get sparser each year with increased pricing. Organization runs at 100% capacity. Difficult to train new employees in the culture of Red Hat because the company is growing very quickly.

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