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      4.1

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (4,750 total reviews)
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      Matt Hicks

      76% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      Red Hat has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 4,750 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 (3.7 stars).

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      3.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Good if you want to work on open source, but run by some dinosaurs

      Senior software developer
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      Pros

      You want to work on Open Source, you want to work on open source in the Boston Area, you would rather not be managed on a microscale (Red Hat promotes effective anarchy amongst developers, its like 80% time vs. Google's 20%). If you are able to push through ideas, even the most junior people can be involved in high level decisions, but upsets from upper management and defocuses are to be expected.

      Cons

      Low pay, chaotic execs harvested from the old-school dinosaur Unix companies that RH buried (think, DEC). We used to call the engineering org "DECHat", vacation time is frequently required to "make quarterly earning projections", and management is overly focused on stock price.

      5.0
      May 10, 2008

      Even with the challenges of a growing company, Red Hat is *hands down* the best place I've ever worked.

      Solutions architect
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      Pros

      I love the fact that even though we are a publicly traded, for profit company, we do pretty much all of our software development in and for the Free/Open Source community. We contribute everything back to the community. Everyone benefits. Even our "competitors" have access to our work, but that's not the point. We spread our wealth to the rest of the world so that even the least wealthy parts of the world have access to the latest technology. We have contributed to numerous projects like One Laptop per Child at a loss just so that we can be good citizens. I am not just allowed but encouraged to do community work like presentations, papers and documentation. I love it here.

      Cons

      We are so over-tasked. Every day feels like drinking from a fire hose, and it seems that every time I ask another team about their timelines or projects I hear that they are short handed.

      5.0
      Apr 29, 2008

      Red Hat, a place to work if you want to change the world!

      Senior software developer
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      Pros

      It's a place where you can really make a change in this world! With so many companies being a true example of "the office" Red Hat is one of the few places where an individual has no limits to what they can do. Being the leader in open source creates some truly different views inside the company, with a "can do" attitude flourishing. There is no task to big and no competitor to scary.

      Cons

      Sometimes pressure is high and it is a VERY fast changing environment - so don't come here if you don't like change :). Red Hat firmly believes in eating it's own dog food - so expect to get a culture shock if you came from a cushy MS world filled with Windows, Office & Exchange.

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