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      Canonical

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      Canonical reviews

      3.2

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (440 total reviews)

      Mark Shuttleworth

      40% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      2.5

      Senior management

      Canonical has an employee rating of 3.2 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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      Reviews by job title

      440 reviews
      1.0
      Aug 6, 2014

      Canonical - Ubuntu labrats

      Sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good Salary - Worked remotely from home - Travel perks when working abroad - Great colleagues and made friends for life

      Cons

      - Dealing with inept senior managers who had no idea what their customers were buying and why - Canonical is run by their maniacal founder their Benevolent Dictator - The Veeps there are clueless to the real needs of the Business and will not listen to their sales force - FOSS technology and community is important but it is not more salient than building a stable product that meets customer needs - Stupid business model of giving away the software for free then berating and badgering users for NOT becoming paying customers. D'oh! This part cannot be emphasized enough.

      4.0
      Jul 27, 2014

      Good company

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible, friendly, great projects. I love to work here

      Cons

      No career plan, is difficult to understand how the rules are divided on the company.

      3.0
      Apr 22, 2014

      Great vision, poor execution

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good if you are an autonomous person who doesn't need direction from immediate management. Very flexible environment although it can be extremely demanding at times if you work for the business side of the company. International travel to many interesting destinations as the company doesn't operate regionally yet. Great place to learn fast and work with the best engineers in the industry.

      Cons

      No benefits such as laptop or private health insurance. Lots of very skilled people leaving all the time, the company lacks an employee retention strategy. Senior management doesn't have a long term strategy and things may change any minute. Acting as a start-up in many ways but limited hiring also limits the execution ability of the current teams and burns out most people trying deliver quality, especially those coming from more mature companies used to have resources to do their job. Depending on the internal organisation you work for, the work-life balance can be inexistent, one must be ready to leave everything aside and just work for Canonical. It can be very frustrating to see how great potential and great opportunities can't be executed properly because lack of resources. In general, the feeling is a permanent chaos which doesn't seem to get better any time soon.

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