Decent Place to Rest, Not a place to learn or earn. - Principal Product Manager Red Hat Employee Review

3.0
Feb 1, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Culture was very open and transparent, but you had to know where to look and who to ask and put in the effort to get information. - A lot of freedom. - This was a really good place to get paid decently for minimum work. You can pretty much drink coffee and talk all day. If you're trying to learn or drive real outcomes this isn't the place. But wonderful retirement.

Cons

- Product Managers appear very detached from real messaging and outcomes their customers desire. Significant engineering bias in a clearly engineering led organization. Very few folks can serve as a translation layer and those folks appear to leave quickly.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Extremely talented and motivated people Great product and ecosystem around Kubernetes

Cons

Bluewashing is real. After 4 years past acquisition it is not Open Decision company anymore. There is no clear communication about the direction where the company goes, some departments were moved to IBM without clear explanation why. Promotion process that was clear before is gone, and now your salary increase or promotion are directly depend on your relationship with the manager and not from your contribution to the team or the product.

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