Vantaggi
Opportunity to work with diverse cultures and good hearted, brilliant people daily. Equity rewards (RSU) program was very good. Work required creative problem solving and the best solutions for the company came from meritocracy. Despite its large size, the old Red Hat was a family that cared about its employees.
Svantaggi
The Frank Caleroni era will go down as the most destructive period in the company's history. Over a mere 18 months, many of the company's brightest leaders were driven out of the organization and replaced by big company groupthinkers who tried to apply a huge company bureaucracy to a thriving, unique mid-sized company in growth phase. In addition, this leadership has actively eliminated US jobs and shipped the work to India. Predictably Red Hat is now facing operational problems that other large companies experienced 10 years ago with this strategy. The once thriving culture has degraded from "I work someplace special" to "this is just another job at a faceless big corporate company."