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Highly distributed company where most people work from home on Ubuntu (Linux) development and related opportunities. Bright, driven, technically adept co-workers. Canonical's origins and DNA are primarily technical. Well positioned for a number of trends: Cloud, Mobile, Touch, Tablets, Smart TVs, etc. but broad aspirations spreads relatively small team's scarce resources thin and dilutes focus. Challenges sometimes arise as Canonical seeks to tackle large business opportunities with smaller teams. Challenges also arise in keeping the Ubuntu community motivated to contribute to, and aligned with, Canonical's commercial interests.
Best parts are: 1) co-workers and getting together with other Canonical & Ubuntu people, 2) Ubuntu.

You’ll work with some of the most intelligent coworkers in any department. Sales leaders lack all transparency (fair warning). Quota numbers make zero sense with sales splits between field, inside, cloud, and partner channel teams. Deals can be closed within your account including RENEWALS, and you won’t get paid. Other teams WILL close deals on your accounts, this is not a joke, this is a warning. Save yourself the time, effort, and stress. Don’t work in sales at this company. Other departments have it pretty calm.

I began at Canonical as a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed software developer looking to get into the world of open source software, and it did not disappoint.

The direction of the company changed frequently (and very dramatically, last month). which often made it difficult to keep up with, but there are a few projects that the company managed quite well such as Juju and Snappy. The culture is progressive and kind with regards to work-life balance, and the travel restrictions for remote employees light and manageable.

Work is remote, generally the development role is beneficial for new grads that want extensive experience across every industry. But career advancement is not guaranteed by any standard, especially as a sales person. There is an internal review cycle which is massively important for career growth that is very demotivating and demoralizing. Makes it difficult to trust your colleagues, and hitting your numbers is not enough.

Management was spotty and direction was ill-defined in the beginning.  Training requirements were defined however expectations were not in-line with the stated training deadlines.  (ie:  2 weeks to complete however management wanted the training completed in 3 days or less).

I love working here. 

PROs:
- Remote work flexibility
- Extremely smart, talented coworkers
- "Sprints" > one-week trips to Europe twice a year
- Personally, my manager is great (genuinely cares about my development, has my back) & my team has very mature people

CONs:
- Pay is not so great in certain countries but the HR team is working on it
- Some teams are still operating like a start-up > it can be messy, unorganized, and chaotic

An excellent company to work for: not so much bureaucracy for such a big company. The colleagues are intelligent and supportive, and the management can always give a helping hand. The whole ecosystem of products can be intimidating, so join only if you are ready to learn something new and enter the unknown. I like this culture.

Open source enterprise software is a great industry.  Founder/Owner/CEO is greatest obstacle to any employees success and satisfaction.  Little/No support from executive staff. Consider only if you are in an engineering role, all others are "overhead" and under valued.

Canonical has a great lead in product Ubuntu Linux, which is free. Building service products to help win customers was a great fun and rewarding.  Growth in the company and specifically the Exec management were at times challenging.

Work can be very interesting but the expectation is that you will work 10+ hours a day plus nights to be successful with the global team.  Lots of travel which is great if you want to see the world, but if you  have a family that can be a challenge.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Sourcing manager 49 salaries reported	$265,000 per year
Sales director 49 salaries reported	$375,000 per year
Sales representative 5 salaries reported	$49,000 per year
Software engineer 3 salaries reported	$107,698 per year

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