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
Jun 23, 2018

Don't believe the hype

Recommend
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Pros

- great benefit package - regular opportunities for social activities

Cons

- incompetent, old-fashioned management - lack of direction from leadership (no long-term strategy) - employees constantly need to be educated on how to use toilets in the proper manner (and not leave them in disgusting conditions) - lower than average salary - coworkers can't comprehend the concept of selective recycling

1.0
Apr 3, 2019

Not "Red Hat"

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- work mostly in the open - social activities every once in a while - talented and engaged remote staff - plentiful parking spaces - coffee machine, snacks with breakfast once a week - nearby restaurant and shop within walking distance for lunch - lots of meeting rooms

Cons

- not Red Hat, still very much an isolated startup culture - over-reliance on open source tooling is a downfall and causes major time loss - outward local image seems more important than fixing problems internally - not enough seniors, all new hires are grads and interns and the experience gap is far too big and neither benefits - projects are mostly uninteresting and repetitive (don't get attached to your code) - open office environment is often very noisy - office divide - little emphasis on quality, quick-merge coding attitude with the same mistakes being made repeatedly - questionable practices and information hiding - ever increasing talent bleed makes department morale and office environment poor

2.0
Jun 5, 2018

Software Engineer

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Get a chance to work with interesting open source software. Some fantastically smart people to work with.

Cons

Very much a boys club. Can easily get boxed into a particular role. No room for growth. Lack of proper guidence and management. Information and company decisions heavily filtered. Some knowledge hiding.

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