Not what it used to be - Senior Principal Product Manager Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
29 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great benefits, good salaries and used to be good bonuses, leading edge and open source which is interesting.

Cons

Lost a lot of its community feel, the company values encourage you to be authentic and who you are, but if your manager doesn't like that you're on thin ice. I'm not sure ho much of being part of IBM is driving this. Word is that there will be no promotions or bonuses for the remainder of the year (2025). More and more people on stretch projects, so your day job plus something that you'd like to do, or have been asked to cover. It's causing a lot of burn out.

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Quite of freedom to explore and experiments

Cons

Reorgs are quite often lately

3.0
9 Jun 2026
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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