The Open Culture is Closed - Principal Data Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

2.0
22 Jun 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Learning Curve is great - Use lot of latest technologies, but it's your luck whether you will be able to use it or not, as your leadership will stop you to do anything new. - Being a pioneer to open source, scope of growth is great

Cons

- After IBM took over, gradually over the years the Culture that people used to love for is gone. - New People Leadership has worsen the situation - In past year RedHat hired few new leadership who doesn't know what leadership means. Instead of continuing RedHat's great culture they are more interested to push the toxic culture that they have left in earlier orgs. - Recent aimless-unplanned layoffs just to make the shareholders happy made the organisation atmosphere more worry some, - Previously, it used to be heaven when your leadership team used to discuss everything that are people centric, now it's totally changed. Every leader with hide the actual fact what's going on. Even when a month before the layoff hit, the question was asked to CEO that is here any chance of cutting down the employee strength, he simply denied and told we will not. But after a month all of a certain an email came and within a 4 min video call, you are out. - Even if profitable for last few quarters with good growth, they never thought of the employees who were there for the last 15 years+. - Management's vision is as low as they hired a person on 1st April and fired him on 24th April.and this is the reality I have seen.

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