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
Apr 8, 2021

Public Sector is lacking

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Pros

Remote Work Health Insurance Benefits Travel, as long as there isn't a pandemic

Cons

Management focuses solely on sales targets, and absolutely ignores root cause for keeping up with market trends in practice/tech, which is farming the same talent out without investing in their new hires to take over. You'll commonly be at 100-120% billable allocation if you have a skillset and know what you're doing, while newbies sit on the bench indefinitely not getting experience. Management struggles to train and enable their employees, and doesn't hold people accountable. Favoritism forms an endless cycle of fighting for the same few people to staff projects. Everything is wild west. There are no processes, everything is off the hip. All the best and brightest that form standard collateral just get railroaded by sales until they can't produce anymore. Red Hat touts being an open organization, but have incompetent senior staff that play politics/favorites if you don't do exactly what they say. The entire environment is high-context that relies on information hoarder/busy bodies that don't actually do technical work. Your input isn't valued. People with loftier titles haven't done technical work in decades. Compensation is all over the place. Performance targets are worthless. Work here if you want your career to die, or if you like failing into management.

3.0
Apr 7, 2021
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Pros

- You will get out of Red Hat that which you put in and have flexibility in career - The pay isn't bad compared to other non-vendor similar positions - The expectations of work before everything are definitely not there and it's not a cutthroat environment amongst colleagues in similar roles

Cons

- The rewards for equal effort aren't equitably distributed and the flexibility isn't tied to your professional output but rather to the management you happen to report - Diversity and Inclusion is more talk than action and HR or People Team are more ombudsmen or a buffer between employee and management than true HR - Change for change sake often leads to duplicative and redundant roles - Very little mandate to affect or enfirce said change thus your exposure & therefore influence beyond your small sphere of contacts is limited by a very oddly matrixed yet heirarchical org/reporting chart/chain. - Meritocracy isn't a good thing, it marginalizes those whom are unsuccessful branding them somehow less fit

3.0
Mar 7, 2017

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Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits, nice quarterly bonuses

Cons

Micromanagement, shutdown from Christmas to New Years

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