Fast paced, innovative & collaborative and employees have a good work/life balance in my view. - Branding Specialist [ I Just Left This Department of Unhappy Old Hags] Red Hat Employee Review

4.0
24 Oct 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great technology, innovation, employees are encouraged to speak up. Red Hat has a dynamic global work force and hires the top talent no matter where they live in the world. Employees are not micro-managed and are empowered to utilize their skills and experience in their fields.

Cons

RedHat's corporate "branding" team thinks they run the company and members step out of their boundaries to monitor every social post or opinion of employees who blog, tweet or just have opinions they express on a social media platform. I'd bet someone in branding will read this review and attempt to stick their 2 to 4 cents in on my post. Management might be too focused on wall street and keeping analysts happy at times;

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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