Area Sales Executive - Sales Executive Canonical Employee Review

1.0
Apr 17, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Unfortunately no pros to elaborate about this company. Ubuntu et. al. brand products adoption and growth in the commercial enterprise market doesn't stand a chance without the much needed talented sales, support and engineering employees. Which currently Canonical's executive team is in process of severely shedding as part of the large employees layoff's.

Cons

Last week, Canonical has abruptly decided to do large employees layoff. This layoff event was conducted with minimal notice and has negatively affected employees with no healthcare benefits, etc. Canonical products already have a challenge to prove themselves in the commercial enterprise customer space. Without the talented employees selling, supporting and engineering these products, Canonical will struggle to support their products. Unfortunately this company has abruptly reached to an end point where there is diminished returns and opportunity to lead the market is lost. This is the worst professional company I have ever worked for.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jan 5, 2026
Recommend
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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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