Woke company with many internal process - Director Canonical Employee Review

3.0
Dec 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Full remote company. A lot of smart people, working with passion for their project. An engaging mission of the company. Precise and interesting rules for internal moves. Automatic salary review every six months. The real intention of the CEO is to excel in all aspects.

Cons

Too many internal processes to follow make up for more than half of your work time, while your own tasks get delayed. The result is that you need to work during holidays or weekends to keep up. 360 is good, but using it to harass employees makes it meaningless, as the whole company inflates the scores in an attempt to save their own teams. Internal moves are available only to the top 30% of 360 results, meaning that popularity is more important than real and measurable performance. Promotion tenures at level are too long: a graduate shall not wait ten years to become a mid-range technical engineer. The result is that good engineers leave because they get stuck and find better positions elsewhere. The woke system discriminates against males to push forward women, who receive special privileges and a much easier life. Diversity and equality are a pretest for women's specific privileges, training, and special treatments. Automatic increases are a good thing, but once you hit the salary cap of your role, you get stuck because you cannot get a promotion for five+ years. Highly stressful environment, not because of the work, but because of the highly time-consuming internal processes. Very poor product management and testing culture leads to low quality. Stress, poor company policies, low quality, impossible promotion times lead the best engineers to look for better offers.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

> Highly visible open source company > O.K. pay and benefits > Twice yearly trips to interesting locations > Intelligent and mostly caring colleagues > Getting to put Canonical on your resume will help your career

Cons

> Toxic leadership style trickles down to the middle management. They're ruthless and single-minded (and extremely intelligent) at the top, and those seem to be the traits that get people promoted. The promotion process is also hilariously involved, and if you don't perform they'll demote you. > Insane interview process - mine took something like four months to complete, represented like 40+ hours of my time, and was considered average. > Twice yearly trips for grueling weeklong sprints. > The company only hires the best so, if you're used to being very good at your job, here you'll only be average at best. > Stack ranking - bottom X% of employees after each biannual review are placed on a PIP. > From what I saw, there are no "personality hires". Morale is expected to be derived solely from the company-paid work trips and the experience of getting paid to create open source software. Maybe this is unavoidable for full-remote companies, but it gets gloomy. > The video-on calls with your team and other teams will take up several hours of every single day, good luck finding time to actually get your work done during the day.

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