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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
      Dec 17, 2012

      An energetic start-up that listens to it's staff but is growing way too fast

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people, both based in offices and remote (work from home). Lots of opportunity to carve your own path in the company and make product suggestions and enhancements. Great technology and ideas on howto adapt it. Company meetings and developer meetings yearly face-to-face. Good office locations.

      Cons

      Not well organised and constantly changing. Lots of middle management with little added value. Teams are pushing Ubuntu to many different areas which ends up with little focus on each area. Company has grown rather large without necessarily making any more money.

      5.0
      Dec 5, 2012

      Great technical company

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      At some companies, there are always a few people that obviously can't hack it, and yet somehow are able to coast. Not at Canonical. If you can't hack it, you're going to end up leaving, because we move at such a rapid pace. The work is interesting, there are always new opportunities and new problems to solve. It's hard to be bored here.

      Cons

      There tends to be a fluctuation in what Canonical is focusing on, because they are so young. Sometimes they aren't focusing in the right way, sometimes they are focusing to broadly, and sometimes it takes a few months to realize there's an adjustment needed (but it *always* happens, and we work through it).

      3.0
      Oct 23, 2012

      Very mixed - can be a startup experience without the financial rewards, or drudge work

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A lot of smart people, potential for interesting work and technology for the right person in the right place. As long as you're enthused and energized it can be very rewarding. The company suits top notch hackers with diverse skills and unbounded enthusiasm.

      Cons

      Packaging OSes has a lot of drudge work around it. A lot of positions in Canonical are quite tedious. The more interesting work is around the company's effort to redefine itself as a products company. However, those efforts seem very scatter-gun.

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