Canonical reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(440 total reviews)

Mark Shuttleworth

43% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Canonical has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 440 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canonical employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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440 reviews
1.0
Aug 5, 2015

RUN AWAY

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

WFH - and if you believe(d) in Ubuntu, that's probably it.

Cons

Everything. Culture of disrespect; low hiring bar - and everything that goes with that; no equity.. anyone with better options would be stupid to work there (especially now that it's clear there is no valid business model).

1.0
Jul 17, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very (very) flexible, making work/life balance easy Truly fantastic people, especially on the engineering side Whenever someone I care about asks if they should take a job there (as Canonical tends to hire the popular open source kids, whatever their actual abilities to run a business), I tell them, "Yes, if you just want a place to hang out for a year or two and not work very hard. But no if you really care about growing your career and learning something." Embedded in that counsel is this: it's kind of like a club, not a real company, and clubs can be fun.

Cons

Business plan suffers from serious ADHD. Never focus on anything long enough to really test whether it will work. Instead, out of fear of failure, the company invests in everything that looks remotely trendy, and so never really gains traction in anything. Sure, they'll point to the "market share" they have, but that's never on paid adoption, and always on free-riding users. Of course people are going to use Ubuntu for test projects if they don't have to pay. But they use RHEL when they're serious. While peers tend to treat each other well (except at the senior executive level), the top-down management style can be caustic, at best. It's a place you'll want to wear an asbestos suit, when the criticism should mainly be reflective.

3.0
Jul 15, 2015

Software Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Never fire useless employees Nice building for work Good place for developing technical skills

Cons

Never fire useless employees Bad local management

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