Red Hat reviews

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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2.0
May 18, 2023

Goodbye Open Culture

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Pros

The Red Hat that once was, before current leadership was in place, was full of opportunity and growth. Open was real.

Cons

The current leadership in place at Red Hat is out to change the place altogether. Take the recent layoffs as an example, the People Team did their layoffs in a 4 minute call. THE PEOPLE TEAM. The team that is supposed to care about how this place is run. How people are treated. They showed their true colors. They “eliminated roles” and it wasn’t “performance based” but then it’s uncovered that they just moved the remaining people into those roles to put a bandaid on the gaps. Is that how it works? Seems a little…suspicious. And it cannot go without being addressed that the current leader of the People Team is essentially hiring all of her friends from Cisco. She’s been at Red Hat 2 years and slowly chipping away at this great company. Conforming to other companies cultures and ways of doing business and erasing how Red Hat has operated for so many years. Don’t get me wrong, change is necessary and how a company grows. But at what point do we question the leadership for devastating change?

1.0
Feb 27, 2018

Do not recommend

Anonymous employee
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Pros

great coworkers, lots of opportunities to learn

Cons

They are very discriminatory here against women and people of different backgrounds in general. opportunities, promotions usually given to white males and their friends. Not sure it's as bad in the Raleigh office because the office is bigger.

3.0
Dec 8, 2017

Red Hat: Ideal vs Actual

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company's ideals are amazing (open source principals).

Cons

Implementation of ideals were not congruent with ideals. People team (HR) stifled career growth (both compensation wise and responsibility wise) and had layers of micromanagement. Many employees were not actually skilled (poor hiring practices) and were in positions of power simply by virtue of being there during high growth. They were afraid of being exposed and would hide their incompetence behind micromanagement and fear based leadership styles.

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