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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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      440 reviews
      4.0
      Apr 16, 2014

      Great technology; smart engineering; lots of politics.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good pay. Excellent technology. Great engineers.

      Cons

      Little/no room for advancement. Strategic focus is lost on pursuing contract engineering.

      5.0
      Apr 8, 2014

      Operations

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Challenging work Fast paced, dynamic environment Exciting and innovative

      Cons

      Long hours so can be difficult to balance with life

      2.0
      Feb 27, 2014

      Great people, awful senior managers

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work with open source software, good salaries (if you work at the offices), some great, fun people around

      Cons

      Senior management is totally oblivious, after almost 10 years the company still can't make a profit; lack of focus (they are always looking for the next big thing); there is no training for employees; fail to recognize talent, keep hiring external managers instead of promote internally; HR (they call it People and Culture) is a joke.

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