Excellent Colleagues - Web Engineer Canonical Employee Review

3.0
6 Mar 2024
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Pros

Working for an open source company meant lots of like minded employees. Amazing Web&Design team culture. Fun week long sprints.

Cons

Significant pay rises are impossible to get. Gender based inequality in salaries due to women generally not negotiating as high a salary to start with and then impossible to get a rise more than 5%. No salary bands, which causes more inequality in pay. All decisions pretty much still made by the CEO, he doesn't care what the managers of teams have to say about what their team members deserve.

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5.0
18 Apr 2026
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Pros

very good. happy so far

Cons

could be better, like the time of application to final round

2.0
23 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Met some interesting people, had some interesting conversations.

Cons

Was constantly hearing bad stories about upper management. I only experienced the CEO expressing minor annoyance and paranoia a couple of times. My line manager always seemed to be treading water, fixated on dev-ops ceremonies, and didn't respect the opinions of his peers. The guy who was the "expert" for my field practised management by spreadsheet and was completely out of his depth, always obsessing about his approach to the work and inflicting his opinion on everyone else. Spent too much time having to plan for travel or hear about everyone's travel plans. Wasted so much time in the company's ongoing recruitment drive which pushes most of the work of interviewing and filtering candidates onto regular employees.

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