Low pay, lack of diversity - Anonymous employee Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
25 Jan 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Red Hat offers a great opportunity to learn and grow alongside some talented people who genuinely care.

Cons

In non-engineering roles, expect your pay to be well below market rate. Banking on moving up the ladder in order to make up for the low starting salary? Good luck! There’s little to no transparency around career advancement, so you’ll never know how close (or far) you are from that elusive promotion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are just a few of the hottest buzzwords at Red Hat right now. Management preaches of their importance, and yet if you look around you’ll notice that a lot of teams have none of those characteristics. This is especially true the higher you go in the company hierarchy.

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