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
Dec 20, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some Good People Early open source excitement Product is free for what that's worth

Cons

Poor Executive Management Toxic Culture driven by CEO

2.0
Feb 13, 2019

Never was so glad to be laid off

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cutting edge technology, industry leader, innovation

Cons

Employees work in fear of encounters with the owner. No employee ever feels secure with their job. Public humiliation and dismissal for speaking out are common at company meetings.

3.0
Jun 12, 2023

Decent

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote work. Plenty of software technologies.

Cons

Micromanagement. People are affraid of managers. Engineers overloaded with hiring process.

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Canonical Response
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Hello. We are glad to see that you enjoy remote working. We have put a lot of thought into how we enable our people to do their best work and effectively communicate with other team members. We think we have got pretty good at this especially given it's been our normal environment for so long. And we are definitely a place to be if you are an Engineer looking to work on, or have exposure to, many different technologies. We are so glad you are enjoying this aspect. We want to suggest that you reach out to the People team on your comment regarding managers. This is really something that you should raise internally here for us to be able to help and investigate further. It is difficult for us to take action from this site but we are ready and waiting and hope to hear from you on this. On hiring, we monitor activity carefully. We still have a little way to go on this but the good news is that we are about to train 82 new members to join our hiring leadership team! We are also in the final planning stages of rolling out our interview training. Watch this space! If you want to discuss this further, or have ideas, please do connect with our Head of Talent Science.
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