Red Hat Employee Reviews
Out of 427 Red Hat employee reviews, 84% were positive. The remaining 16% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Red Hat improve their work culture. The IT team, with 87% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Red Hat compared to all other departments at the company. The Operations team offered the most constructive feedback, with 30% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Open and transparent about decisions that affect all of us. They truly believe that the people at Red Hat are the most important thing the company has. They have a vision of the future that I wholeheartedly agree with and strive to make a reality each day.
Transparent , approachable, client focused but also associates focus
Open culture and great innovators
Review from Operations Dept
The managers maintain the good culture.
Open minded transparent people. Actual engineers
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Execution, stability and trust toward their teams
Resigning, after consistently sabotaging the culture and atmosphere in the company.
At doing their job. Instead of throwing whatever buzzword of the moment and following blindly what consulting firms tell them to do.
Understanding of how to run an enterprise.
Stop internal politics and focus on product and customer experience.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Healthcare, pay, bonus - although not like it used to be
My total compensation is awesome.
The stability of the company
This company believes in merit. Those that do, will get rewarded. A huge opportunity for anyone to contribute to meaningful work being done and to be valued and rewarded for those contributions.
Bonus and stock schemes could be generous
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
get closer to a salary that aligns with my responsibilities
Review from IT Dept
Compensation at Red Hat depends on if you are liked. Not if you produce. Its all political which is why they can't retain talent
Salaries are a joke, they do not match inflation at all, so you end up losing purchasing power.
Grossly underpaid compared to the market, failure to keep up with inflation. Lost 30% buying power in the last 3 years.
The global shift to remote has caused companies like Red Hat to need to catch up with benefits that match the new landscape.
Review from Engineering Dept
What are some of the best things about your team?
Intelligent, kind, relatable, collaborative, all-in
Team is open, willing to adapt to change quickly and learn new things fast (AI).
The way we engage with each other. Everyone comes from a placed of "assume positive intent".
They are wonderful people who care about the success of the company more than personallyh moving up the corporate ladder
The immediate teams are amazing. Everyone puts their heart into their work and truly tries to elevate everyone around them.
Review from Sales Dept
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
There is a lot of ego at Red Hat. From the CEO on down everyone thinks their the best which makes for poor communication since no one is listening to anyone but themselves
There are some smart and nice people, but this tends to degrade as well: those people are quitting in droves, being replaced by lower-quality workers who do not share the same culture.
It's for the most part a club of entitled highly-opinionated white men. When they get tokens of diversity, it is for the most superficial corporate roles, e.g. unskilled ambitious bureaucrats, rather than for skilled jobs.
Stop the competition and work to make everyone successful.
Review from IT Dept
Build skills continuously in line with the marketplace; practice what Red Hat alleges to stand for.
Review from Operations Dept
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
I have a great team.
We truly believe that a good idea can come from anywhere. And the more diverse opinions we can get, the better the idea will be. The way we include people from all over the globe and work together so well as one is a beautiful thing.
The people I work with directly are great. The culture, among the teams, is wonderful
strong open source software culture.
Is very open, team work and innovation
Review from Operations Dept
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
We are purely managing by spreadsheet in that we're making decisions that have long term negative impacts on both customer engagement and employee morale. It's painfully obvious we no longer care about retention and that brings the overall sentiment down creating a negative workspace.
Review from Sales Dept
Replace the leadership that has been methodically ruining the culture, get rid of dead weight bureaucrats, instead of laying off the skilled and competent people. Stop using buzzwords to pretend having a strategy. stop enabling management to be toxic
There needs to be less of a focus on growth and more of a focus on stability
Become more sophisticated and matured.
Enable management to understand what discrimination is
What did you like most about the interview process?
I had one person assigned to me that I could reach out to and ask questions of during the process.
It's not overly arduous so pretty straight forward. But, we operate with one talent person for the entirety of North America so it's almost impossible to get the process started and finished.
Review from Sales Dept
Synergy with hiring the manager.
The questions and discussions were really good. It was clear that the interviewers were really listening to me and challenging me.
Relaxed atmosphere and direct communication.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
More clarity about pay and benefits.
Coordination and planning of interviews to better align with the needs of the position
Where do I begin? There is constant churn in talent acquisition (recruiters). The experience is very inconsistent.
Review from Finance Dept
What makes you most happy at work?
The people I work with and the freedom I have.
I get to help large and important organizations solve real problems using open source software. I love that we embrace the differences of each other rather than become tribal and only look for opinions that match our own. We actively live our values every day, and I could not be more proud of that
My immediate team and immediate manager.
Review from Sales Dept
customer and sales or field engagement
Innovate, help customers and support innovation
Review from Operations Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Everything is going wrong. The company's main asset was its culture and people. Culture degraded terribly and along with the higher pressure and worse pay, the talented & skilled people are being driven away.
No vision,breaking at the middle, our corporate and regional leaders are managers and the deep, irrelevant Introspection from IBM distracts
My executive is not clear on what our department's function is, nor supportive or an advocate for teams within the department.
Review from Engineering Dept
Inappropriate behaviors which are supported in the organization spawned by nepotism. There is nothing positive about nepotism in any way, other than it’s a form of smack dab elitism against the disfranchised masses who need the most help to gain power in the company.
Review from Sales Dept
What do you like best about your company?
Its open-source ethos is a unique and powerful model
Review from Engineering Dept
Work Life Balance and The Open Culture
Review from Sales Dept
The culture, and the vision.
Review from Engineering Dept
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Leadership opportunities for people of color.
Review from Sales Dept
I'd love to see more cross-department collaboration.
Review from Engineering Dept