Politically charged and agenda-driven company - Marketing Red Hat Employee Review

1.0
13 Dec 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the best and brightest people you could ever work with are at Red Hat. Middle management does an amazing job at recognizing hard work and rewording it - my work at Red Hat was some of the best in my career and I loved it.

Cons

They claim to be an open culture that values diversity of thought (which they used to be), but Red Hat is now the most politically charged and agenda-driven company that I have ever worked for. It is all coming from executive leadership. It is almost like selling software or taking care of their customers is the last thing on their mind because they are only focused on pushing a progressive agenda.

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