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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2.0
Oct 16, 2017

Failure to Listen to and Value Employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Generally lovely people at peer level and nice office environment. Great brand and culture on camera side of the business.

Cons

Rapid loss of talented and valuable employees due to non-consultative management style and failure to realise the value of employees (print business). When very good employees have resigned, senior management have arrogantly and short-sightedly announced "we don't want them here if they don't want to be here" rather than trying to understand the cause for the rapid turnover. Also considerable loss of clients by Canon Business Services over a number of years, again due to lack of willingness to listen and change.

1.0
Jul 23, 2017

cold a

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

staff activities seem to be more than work. work life balance

Cons

layer of thick dinosaurs that resist change. you have to subject yourself to rigid stupid checks that are unnecessary and inefficient. sometimes it feels more like u are back at school you have to confine yourself to old rigid checks and procedures that somtimes make no sense. if u dont conform to an activity especially if its a co wide thing, you will be regarded as having disgraced your dept/section and ostracised. colleagues are also cold and unfeeling. some even plain rude and show no mutual respect to others. impossible to strike up any conversation unless u have been here a very long time. unless u have the thickest skin and a complete robot. or else this place will kill your initiative spirit.

2.0
Dec 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice, helpful colleagues Good work/life balance International colleagues

Cons

Career progression only for selected few (men) - no talent management programme can fix that Severe lack of diversity in head office Sloooooow decision taking In need of external recruitment to replace vast majority of senior management to provide new perspectives to the business & inject new energy into company No vision from management Lack of leadership Pay is not on par with industry standards

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