Great company to work for. - Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Employee Review

5.0
18 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Red Hat is great place to work, if you're someone who likes to push themselves forward, create your on thing and make your own calculated risks. The company has a great future, built on solid re-occurring revenue model and is not dependent on any VC funding rounds. This model allows them to hire thousands of software engineers who work on upstream open source projects.

Cons

For me, very little. Most of the reviews on here that mark working for red hat as unsatisfactory, are likely to be sales / services personal, who find it hard to adjust to the culture (having had former careers at IBM, Oracle etc). I have also heard the middleware consultants tend to get burned out quickly. Red Hat is very much an Engineers company at heart.

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Quite of freedom to explore and experiments

Cons

Reorgs are quite often lately

3.0
4 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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