Great Company Culture if You are Looking for a Retirement Home - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
29 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Open Culture: communication here is open and encouraged. Flexible work schedule: most team allows flexible work schedule and environment to accommodate personal needs Nice people: people here are nice in general

Cons

Middle Management: layers on top of layers of management, sometimes very incompetent once. RH keeps people around simply because they have been here for 10+ years, but not for their capabilities. Very inefficient management style Complacency: people around you are most likely ambitionless and have no drive to go above and beyond. They are okay with taking the paycheck and raise their families. Lack of innovation: if you are looking for somewhere with innovation and do research, RH is not it. 2 thirds of the company is sales and marketing. Very few people are actually on the product side. There is no true agile product management because the products are developed upstream, RH is merely a downstream package center to put on a quality assurance stamp on for enterprise level customers.

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Cons

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