Great people to work with but leadership is driving the best ones away
Pros
- The people at Red Hat are some of the most hardworking, genuine, collaborative, supportive and fun-loving people I have ever had the pleasure to work with. There is a sense of comradery that is unique and empowering (but that happens when people feel like they are going into battle everyday together). - When leadership gets out of the way and trusts the team leaders and associates, there are amazing results created by phenomenal teams. - There are pockets within the company that truly embrace and foster the culture and core values. Most of these pockets exist in the areas that deal directly with customers.
Cons
- Back Office management and leadership are not able to get out of their own way to allow people to develop processes and policies to support the growth that the company is experiencing. Stale leadership causes there to be missed opportunities and does not allow for trust in the associates to innovate and help grow the company to its fullest potential. - Lack of accountability within leadership trickles down and impacts the team and projects. There is an aversion to setting clear success measures for internal projects which leads to failures on many levels that are not acknowledged, addressed or corrected. - The high performers are overburdened and the underperforming favorites are given the opportunities to take on large stretch assignments. When they inevitably do not deliver, the work/responsibilities are passed on to the high performers to clean up or take the blame OR the project is abandoned all together without acknowledgement or lessons learned from the failure. - Work life balance is poor for high performers. Low performers are rarely coached nor are deficiencies addressed . They are allowed to stay and some times are promoted which is the opposite of meritocracy. - Management will hire subject matter experts but will not listen to them if it does not align with their personal agendas. - Politics runs rampant and is difficult to navigate. This is due to the lack of accountability and tendency to give in to big egos or insecurities.