Red Hat reviews

The company is deeply divided and siloed between the traditional RHEL product and the myriad other product lines brought in via acquisitions. There are continual management initiatives to try and build bridges but they're usually of the "pointy haired" variety and go nowhere. Every 6 months there's a new "common framework for X" project, and another such project quietly dies. There is a culture of cheapness, from placing offices in lesser-known towns, to constantly delaying salary cycles, to even asking some staff to share hotel rooms. Groups that are supposed to span the silos, like docs and testing (which red hat insists on calling "QE") are weak -- the docs guys are good but too few in number, the testing guys are mostly junior hires who are given more work than they can reasonably be expected to handle. Basically, it's a place you can carve out a very comfortable and interesting niche if you want, but to do so you have to be able to tune out the sound of all the chaos and waste around you.

No longer a meritocracy, at least in the circles I traveled in. Many management positions are being filled with people from opposing cultures and proprietary companies. This is driving away the passionate and squashing meritocracy. No longer terribly transparent, lots of decisions behind closed doors because of the point mentioned above.