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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
      2.0
      Apr 4, 2026

      Good colleagues, terrible performance management process

      Software engineer i
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Great and supportive teammates - Decent base salary -Twice yearly week-long "sprints" with team outings in cool cities

      Cons

      The performance management is the worst of all worlds: completely opaque, determined by a selection of colleagues picking a single ambiguous statement from each of six categories which somehow gets transformed into a percentile ranking, and stack ranking where the bottom 10% are automatically placed on a PIP with the expectation that they will fail out. It's nearly impossible to extract actionable improvements from the system so you just sort of have to guess why you received the ranking you're given and what you can improve.

      3.0
      Apr 3, 2026

      Good

      Data engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Enjoyable hiring process with cross-team collaboration

      Cons

      Long hiring process with some assessment

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