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Updated May 23, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Operations Coordinator at Red Hat
Posted Sep 20, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Raleigh, NC (took 3 weeks)
The process began with an initial phone screen with the hiring manager. This person was polite but also seemed a bit distracted and uninterested in what I had to say. The phone screen lasted about 20 minutes and consisted of review of my background and my familiarity with various software systems and my knowledge of open source software.
Although I thought I bombed the phone screen, I was invited to comeback for an in-person interview. I met with 4 Red Hat employees with various roles within the department. This group included the hiring manager I had spoken with less than a week before, but she did not seem to recall our previous conversation at all. This was somewhat frustrating, but I happily explained my background and skill set again.
Everyone I met with was friendly and none really asked any 'hard-hitting' questions. There was some small talk and the interviewers seemed adequately impressed with my experience. One of the four interviewers seemed bent on asking the textbook interview questions ("What is your biggest weakness?" "Why do you want to work at Red Hat?" "How do you handle a difficult situation?")
In my estimation, the entire interview went well and my skills and experience seemed to be a good match for the position. The negative lasting impression I am left with comes from the absolutely refusal from Red Hat to give any sort of feedback following the interview. I emailed the recruiter I'd been working with several times, but the only thing I heard back was that one of the interviewers said "the interview went well." After about 10 days, the recruiter completely stopped responding to my emails and I gave up. The non-response after coming in for an in-person interview is beyond rude, but from the other reviews on this site, it seems to be par for the course at Red Hat. I wouldn't say this made for a completely negative experience, but it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Marketing at Red Hat
Posted Sep 17, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 (took 6 weeks)
Worked with recruiting team and had two phone interviews, one in-person meeting with several people, and in-person in Raleigh. Initial interviews focused on very specific needs for position versus whether experience/skill set were a good match.
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Negotiation Details
Counter-offered three times to very low offer. Offer will be at lowest end of the spectrum that you provide.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Marketing Cloud at Red Hat
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in Raleigh, NC (took a day)
I am local to Raleigh and know of RedHat products, history, staff. I applied for a middle-management role. Their recruiter put me through a phone screen and they brought me onsite for 3 hrs of interviews (I had to take time out of my other job). The next day the in-house recruiter calls and tells me all the feedback is all good and I am 1 of 3 in the final stages. I waited a week and did 2-3 follow up calls with the hiring manager and recruiter. They never answered a call or an email after that. It was really unprofessional. They did not care of the impression they were leaving with me as a potential hire..or as a future client.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Associate Technical Support Engineer at Red Hat
Posted May 26, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Raleigh, NC (took a day)
Nothing technical at all really. It is pretty much 4 people at different times that want to see if you are a good social fit.
They are hiring some people right out of the mac store.
You will be expected to pass the RHCE exam so you will go straight into training.
If you do not after 3 tries you are not going to be kept on
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation. Salary is fixed.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering Manager at Red Hat
Posted Mar 29, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Raleigh, NC (took 2+ weeks)
For intern, the process only has too step, first round of F2F and second round of F2F
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Project Manager at Red Hat
Posted Dec 6, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Beijing, Beijing (China) (took 2 weeks)
I had several interviews with the management team at a same day. Not very technical but focused on management experiences. one interview with technical manager, one with senior manager of Beijing, and one with HR.
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Negotiation Details
Very straight forward.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Financial Analyst III at Red Hat
Posted Dec 2, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Raleigh, NC (took 3+ weeks)
Was contacted by HR, then a 1:1 telephone interview with the hiring manager and then a full day of personal interviews with the hiring Manager, Senior Manager and Finance Directors and Controller.
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Negotiation Details
Not too much room for negotiation. The offer was very competitive with a generous relocation.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Consultant at Red Hat
Posted Sep 12, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Washington, DC (took a day)
This was a pre-screening interview to determine if my skill set matched the Red Hat requirement. I was applying for more of a consultant/systems architecture role, with a background in many flavors of UNIX support and systems Integration, but they were looking for a Red Hat certified systems administrator/engineer. Interesting that Red Hat prefers to hire people who are already experts in their products. Since I did not have 5 years or more of hands-on Red Hat Linux experience, they were not interested.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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General Engineering at Red Hat
Posted Sep 9, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 2 days)
Contact you through email to set up phone and formal interview.
Very Strong focus on behavioral interview questions with details and specifics, dealing with customer or co-worker experiences. This is odd because your job is mostly technical, but they focus more on how you interact with others than technical knowledge.
Lack of focus on technical questions, but when they do, they ask you to go into details.
They will go down a list of your knowledge. Not really asking details about it, but asking if u know about it. Odd thing is that for that position, they ask you if you know how to do things that is beyond the scope of that job position. Usually yes or no answers.
Person may ask you same questions worded differently probably due to laziness or realization that he's only supposed to pick one from each group. Because of this, be prepared to have multiple answers to the same question.
Some of the people at Red Hat have nose in the air because it's Red Hat. They act and dress the way they want. Red Hat is a very luxurious place with people that look homeless. One interview was late 15-20 minutes. Had sunglasses on the whole time, and play with his phone. Another just look like a homeless.
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I really wanted the job and I fel that it fit my personality as well as offer me a big opportunity to learn. However, I did not like the people there. I would love to walk around and say I work at Red Hat, but I don't know if I want to work with the people at Red Hat day after day. I didn't sense that they're the kind of people that would have your back.
I do not believe that the best/most knowledgeable person always get the job. The best interviewer usually gets the job. You can be a knowledgeable person that mostly work alone creating your stuff, but when you go to Red Hat, they will ask you questions as if you worked in customer service. The questions are generally the same for entry level or higher ups.
I had a friend who got a job offer from Red Hat, but declined. He said that they give you too much work and want you to do everything. He is a high level person right now at another company. He does not like Red Hat....now I know why. Red Hat maybe a great server company, but to work there...not so.
If you have high hopes for this company, just don't. Go for the interview and see it for yourself, but don't expect much. You won't leave feeling good if you have so much knowledge, and they asking you about situations dealing with customers or co-workers.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Administrative at Red Hat
Posted Jun 26, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in New York, NY (took 3+ weeks)
3 Phone interviews, 1 Questionairre with 10 questions (what would you do scenarios), required to send 4 references, invited to NC office then told interview would be in NY office, Interviewed by 3 staff members and one over the phone interview, takes all day.
I didn't get the job. No one from the company ever contacted me to tell me I did not get the job. Not even a thank you for the time I took to participate in their interview process. I did send the standard thank you note, one day after the interview.
I think they are rude and unprofessional. They have such stringent interview process, yet they don't have the courtesy to inform candidates of the outcome of the interview.
Interview Questions
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Personality Test, a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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