Consider carefully if your goal is to grow your career - Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
Feb 27, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible work location and hours. Modern, clean office in Brno, with good furniture and IT equipment. Managers don't typically pressure employees. If you're lucky, you'd have great team members and manager.

Cons

Lower than market compensation, according to my friends, working for other companies. Eroding original Red Hat culture over time, possibly due to IBM acquisition. Many senior employees have left in the past couple of years. Managers may behave without understanding of what they're doing. Too much work to do without experienced colleagues. Profanity in the organization, which does not always support engineering values. Promotion of ethnic and cultural minorities, women, and people of color in the advertisements in the white-dominant region. Those people somehow occupy higher positions without necessarily having the required skills. Good luck implementing new ideas, if those aren't coming from above.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Quite of freedom to explore and experiments

Cons

Reorgs are quite often lately

3.0
May 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good team culture and work-life balance if you have the right management chain - Remote work if you're not close to an office - Leadership transparency and willingness to hear feedback

Cons

- Constant re-orgs without strategy are destabilizing - Manager pool is very mixed in terms of experience and skill - Poor role definition can lead to surprises at quarterly review time - Layoffs/reductions have had a chilling effect - Lower salaries compared to competitors

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