Passionate but still Immature company. - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

4.0
30 Mar 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Internal movement is facilitated (given you have necessary skills) - People with lots of passion about what they do, specially on the technical side. - Simple and Solid business model on the mainstream product (RHEL), very hard for anything to go wrong here.

Cons

- Lack of seniority and strategic vision from part o Sales and specially from Marketing. - Starting to show the growing pains of juvenile companies, such as: Bad, cost management (penny wise, pound foolish). Whole departments are being created to avoid firing people that don't perform.

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5.0
3 June 2026
Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Quite of freedom to explore and experiments

Cons

Reorgs are quite often lately

3.0
4 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good team culture and work-life balance if you have the right management chain - Remote work if you're not close to an office - Leadership transparency and willingness to hear feedback

Cons

- Constant re-orgs without strategy are destabilizing - Manager pool is very mixed in terms of experience and skill - Poor role definition can lead to surprises at quarterly review time - Layoffs/reductions have had a chilling effect - Lower salaries compared to competitors

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