Red Hat reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,738 total reviews)
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Matt Hicks

77% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Red Hat has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 4,738 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 (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jul 2, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great coworkers - Fun office in general with a healthy work-life balance (YMMV by department)

Cons

- Low pay - Transparent only when advantageous to the corporation/management - Toxic management as a result of promoting people not suited to the job for lack of better alternatives - Extremely US-centric company and values

1.0
Sep 20, 2014

Good engineers, but worst managers ever.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A few good engineers run the whole show; very focused senior managment & board of directors, but blind folded about acute toxic environment created by first line managers; NC office has a great management team, engineering and consulting teams and very welcoming work culture; Brand name;

Cons

It really depends on the geo and department you work with; NC - US is a awesome place; BNE engineering team is great aswell, support services is pathetic; Be cautious while signing job offer, ask about of hidden policies, extra work hours, weekend work in advance etc, which will never be reveilved initially or put in black and white, unofficial request's for additional work hours (although engineers put it a lot more hours); first line managers don't have any opensource back ground; No well defined processes in place; managers are good at blame game; forget work life balance; Managers are good with politics and telling blatent lies.

1.0
Oct 19, 2017

Company version of "Get Out"

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Great high level open philosophy. 2. Great CTO level technology forecasting/understanding and preparation 3. Some of excellent developers with broad mindset

Cons

1. This is a place of "Get Out", if you haven't watch the movie "Get out" please watch, that will explain this place easily. 2. This company is looking for slaves to work for whom already been in Red Hat for a long time. You will be just utilised and dumped. 3. Once you joined Red Hat, you won't feel that you are respected from company in a few months. 4. You will have to interpret(not read) your employment contract every word by word, otherwise you will be treated like a person in "Get Out". The best thing, you can do is never to consider this company for your next journey, otherwise you will realise what I was talking about after 3 ~5 months.

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