Red Hat reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,750 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 4,750 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
Feb 7, 2017

Not what it once was...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great co-workers. Products are good and sales are good.

Cons

Very political, almost impossible to get promoted unless you want to play the political game. Watch your back. Employees are pushed out when they don't play the game or adhere to the political views of their department. Terrible communication/work relationships between departments.

3.0
Aug 4, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, reasonable compensation, good products. Free food. Fun company events. Good brand. CEO is great. Good acquisitions, especially Ansible and 3 Scale.

Cons

Channel leadership is a mess. Product leadership has a not invented here mentality. Not a real enterprise software company. Leadership is clubby and parochial. HR is a mess. Stock appreciation doesn't keep pace with market peers.

3.0
Jul 13, 2016

Sales

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, great compensation, good communication by executive management. Regional offices are good environments. It's the name brand in its tech group.

Cons

I've never worked in such a crummy culture. RH was founded as a small business that group extraordinarily. It still has that small company culture and as a result your badge # is critically important. The back stabbing that occurs there I'd never seen in my professional career. Shameful. Happy to have left. The future is grim, linux is the 1 trick pony, nothing else works or sells under that RH logo so eventually cost cutting will have to occur. ..that means job and comp cuts.

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