How Red Hat interviews
Red Hat runs a four-phase hiring process: application, screening, assessment, and decision.
Screening is a resume review followed by a preliminary phone screen that gauges interest and may probe technical and analytical skills. The assessment phase typically combines three formats: a one-on-one interview with the hiring manager focused on your expertise and experience, a technical presentation in which you present a topic or project to a panel and answer questions on your approach, and a panel interview of competency-based behavioral questions about how you solve problems and what motivates you. The distinctive demand here is that technical presentation: unlike a live coding screen, it asks for a prepared talk on your own work, so preparing for Red Hat means building and rehearsing a presentation rather than only drilling algorithm questions, and that is work worth starting well before the assessment stage is scheduled.