Canon reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(2,005 total reviews)
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Fujio Mitarai

71% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Canon has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,005 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Nov 30, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only pro I can think of is the people I've worked with. My team and line managers were great to work with.

Cons

Very inflexible, not a lot of work-life balance. Expected to do 2-3 people's workload with not a lot of recognition. No opportunity to progress, nepotism, few senior managers keep being regurgitated by being moved around departments, with not a lot of accountability. Many team leaders like to micro-manage their team, so you never feel trusted. The general culture is like being back in primary school (on one occasion an employee was put in a time-out for looking at their phone) Since the mass redundancies were announced HR an senior management proved day after day how little they care about the employees' lives. They're treated with disrespect and don't get a lot of support. I could go on all day, but probably anyone reading this gets the idea of how toxic a working environment to expect. I would have given zero stars, if I had the option.

1.0
Oct 7, 2019

Avoid at all costs

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People were nice and Costa shop was great

Cons

Terrific management. Toxic company environment. Very little work to do.

2.0
Aug 7, 2018

A Giant Slowly Dying

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The Brand is Excellent. The work life balance potential is fantastic.

Cons

The work life balance potential is fantastic. For some it works out and others don't get even close (double standards and ridiculous reasons given especially when you look at the government official legal guidelines), therefore it only happens with the right managers and HR management which is sadly lacking. So slow to market or act on data fact. For a company like Canon it's quite frankly embarrassing, easily losing out massively (most importantly against it's quicker and more agile competitors) by not competing when they could have absolutely been #1 from the start and for years while certain segments were growing which they no longer are... Great to be #1 now but far, far too late to have benefited from it properly. Canon Inc! Most of the above seems to stem from the hands of the Regional companies being tied by what appears to now be a dinosaur of a company rather than a tech leader. If you check the Canon Inc website & look at the R&D it completely makes the above statement seem ridiculous! So if the R&D is real (which it is) and all the patents are up there with the best (which they are), then why on earth are Canon in this position now...?

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