Red Hat reviews

4.1

81% 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
Aug 28, 2020

Majorly Disappointing So Much Potential

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Seem to care about staff. Handled Covid very well. Neat culture, but close to brainwashing. Lack of red tape in some areas. Can get stuff done!

Cons

Very strange mgt approach. At times micro manage yet there's hardly any top down mgt. This causes massive and I mean massive issues. Lack of processes, lack of adoption, lack of roles and responsibilities, blurred lines. If people are not empowerd to make change it won't happen. Period. Staff over worked doing the roles of about 6 different people at times. Not handling growth in some depts well at all. You will continue to have turnover if you dont stop over working people. Don't only trust middle mgt to voice their teams are in desperate need of help. Some of these people in mgt have no clue what it takes to properly support a specific type of team and won't recognize where help is needed. My first place where mgt is extremely incompetent in some depts. Some super smart people yet also have some of the dumbest people in charge with literally no past experience managing what they are managing. They didn't even work their way up so literally are clueless. Shocked at the number of spreadsheets for such a high tech company.

5.0
Feb 6, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary, benefits, etc. Basically, all of the table stakes are covered well, but the real benefits to working here revolve around flexibility. I work in Sales, so there is really only one performance indicator they pay attention to... your quota. If you make that consistently, it's almost like working for yourself. Plan your own meetings, time off, speaking engagements, etc. In addition, the culture is very upbeat and collaborative. Most co-workers I've encountered fall over themselves trying to help you and I do the same in return. This has resulted in a very fulfilling experience personally and professionally.

Cons

A bit disorganized. It's difficult to find collateral to do my job. For example, if I want to study/know/present everything about product X, I have to scour the internal Red Hat universe. Not because there is no material, but because there is too much material and its spread all over the place

5.0
Mar 26, 2018

An Amazing place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Interesting technology, Fantastic co-workers, Dynamic atmosphere. Thus far in my 25 year career, this is the best place I have worked.

Cons

No Annual raises, which causes great people to go to different companies and come back to get to industry pay, which is a shame.

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