Red Hat Reviews

Pros

Excellent opportunities for growth and wonderful culture

Cons

Base salary lower than average, stock awards are not as lucrative as others,

Advice to Senior Management

Increase base salary and provide more stock options

Pros

Strong growth in each quarter;
Fairly good working environment but exclude remote offices;

Cons

I take this job when I saw so many good feedback from this website. But I'm wrong because the business environment locally is not the same. Political disruption makes the business not well. Limited information sharing, bad communication and poor marketing. It has not built up an effective platform to run business smoothly.

Advice to Senior Management

Better teamwork is very important to help the company get a stronger position in the local market. It takes time to cultivate the market and don't put too many limitation in the early stage.

Pros

Culture, Salary, Openness, Visibility and working on Bleeding edge technologies.

Cons

Transparency in Salary paid to each employee

Pros

Fast growing enterprise technology company
Value prop resonates with the market (customers and partners) leading to a pull effect
Strong technical innovation roadmaps
Ethical management

Cons

Big start-up company. Very cost conscious.
Systems and processes growing up.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest for aggressive top line growth. Leverage the $1B in bank and debt-free, strong cash flow.

Pros

Transparent Communication between Management & Employees, Business Model based on Open Source, Flexible in choice of Role, Promotes Innovative Ideas

Cons

Only uses Open Source based Technology

Advice to Senior Management

Create more options for carrier growth within the organization.

Pros

The best reasons for working at Red Hat are probably summarized by the values of the company courage, freedom, accountability and commitment.

Cons

The downsides are probably those of other big / structured companies; it might not be easy to ask for a promotion or salary increase

Pros

A four month internship.
Working on linux kernel quality engineering
Workflow is relaxing
Pretty well-paid
And flexible working hours.
For full-time employee, 1.5day/month PTO is competitive in China
and Work-from homw is encouraged.

Cons

Well the payment is not the best in Beijing.
salary is medium. And the bonus might not be competitive
Flow of employees are horrible.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is awesome.
I like the flexible working hours best.
Traffic in Beijing sucks. Hence it is really important for employees to have flexible working hours.

Pros

Open culture
Few knowledgeable seniors
Good colleagues

Cons

Everything controlled from US, no decision-making in India.
No support from seniors.

Advice to Senior Management

More flexibility in terms of control

Pros

Red Hat is special in the software industry because its business model based in open source development. Its approach to customers and its messages to the market are very interesting from the point of view of a sales representative.

Cons

Typical downsides of any software start-up company. In may case, the main pain, is my country manager given his lack of participation with the sales activity and his lack of plans for the long-term.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe in EMEA or at least in my country, the Systems Integrators relationship is very weak. In general, our channel is very weak.

Pros

Red Hat is growing in the middle of a recession, making it a relatively safe and good place to be. The company promotes open source, which is a great thing. The company stands for all the right things. That's a big motivator. The people are smart and the work is challenging.

Cons

If you're looking for an organization that focuses on developing people, this is NOT the place. No formal career development beyond online training, no clear path for advancement. A lot of employees rumble about leaving if the economy ever picks up. It's a great place to take initiative and do valuable work to make yourself look good to a company that takes better care of its people.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in your employees beyond gift cards and online training.