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      Used to be great, but IBM is stripping it of what it means to be open source - Community Manager Red Hat Employee Review

      3.0
      May 1, 2023
      Community manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      I loved the creativity, open innovation, work-life balance, and anonymity that I had at Red Hat

      Cons

      My entire team (and many others) was suddenly laid off with no exact reasoning other than we were no longer aligning with Red Hat. I didn’t agree with it. One of my team members had just celebrated his 20th anniversary with Red Hat. Another influential Red Hatter, active in the Fedora and RHEL community and a well known DE+I community stakeholder was laid off. These firings are not aligned at all with open source and what it means to be open source. Red Hatter is becoming IBM.

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      5.0
      Jun 3, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Quite of freedom to explore and experiments

      Cons

      Reorgs are quite often lately

      3.0
      Jun 9, 2026
      Senior consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

      Cons

      Bluewashing is real. After 4 years past acquisition it is not Open Decision company anymore. There is no clear communication about the direction where the company goes, some departments were moved to IBM without clear explanation why. Promotion process that was clear before is gone, and now your salary increase or promotion are directly depend on your relationship with the manager and not from your contribution to the team or the product.

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