Canopy Reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(34 total reviews)

Mu Chen

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42% positive business outlook

Canopy has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canopy 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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34 reviews
4.0
5 Mar 2019

Not THAT Bad ...

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Pros

- BIG PLUS: Flexible working arrangements (remote) --time and location. - GREAT team-mates. Everyone is super helpful and work with each other with almost no politics (no back-stabbing, no blame game) - NICE team-work. It is good now, but initially, the (new) CTO was kinda hard to work with (culture-shock for him and the team). HOWEVER, a lot has changed with time --after he got to know the team and system better. Now, it is a much better working environment. Seriously, the team is SUPER. Don't know about the other departments, but the Development team is a good environment now (kudo's to the effort put in by the CTO).

Cons

- Salary sucks (below market rate --sure, company is still in a burning-stage, but its hard to retain talent with this salary). - Bosses have difficulties sharing the long-term plan/end-goal, and action-plans. - Several key/important people left the company during the last HR shake-up (which is needed as part of a startup's journey), so a lot of knowledge, skills and history (why things are the way they are now) are missing, causing clouded system requirement/scoping. - Developers need to "fill in the blanks" due to incomplete requirements; many times doing require scoping, impact analysis. acceptance criteria --causing a lot of stress on getting it right (and easy to get things wrong). - Job INsecurity as there is little surety in the contract (1 month notice with no extra compensations)

2.0
2 Jun 2021

Interesting Space with Poor Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Exposure to relevant fintech concepts and technologies - Ability to build systems and processes, and take on responsibilities outside of your core functional area - Opportunities to engage with international clients and custodians - Some incredibly smart and hardworking co-workers, though most of the good ones eventually leave - Supportive managers on the data team who are shackled by poor management decisions

Cons

- The management routinely over promises and under delivers in a bid to grow sales. The team is then left to contend with deeply unhappy clients. - Compensation is poor. You are not rewarded fairly, even when you go above and beyond. - Very long hours, with no overtime pay. - Employee share plans are not adhered to despite being billed as an important part of compensation when you first join. - There is no product focus. Deployments are slow and there are a slew of half baked fixes and manual processes that prevent scalability. - The high attrition rate and stingy hiring policies make it difficult to build a strong and reliable team. - The top leadership is not clear or transparent about the company’s strategy or direction. The CEO has minimal engagement and visibility to those outside the management clique, and purposefully chooses to ignore well known problems such as compensation.

2.0
7 Jun 2021
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Pros

• Flexible work hours • Exposure to new technology • Freedom to learn as much or as little as you like as long as you know enough to do your job. • Mistakes are not punished at all, it's more of "ok, how do we fix it" attitude, with is helpful while you are learning. • Job security is high if you have the stamina to deal with everything. • Some of the colleagues are great to work with.

Cons

ok, how do we fix it" attitude leads to no accountability meaning people can get away with basically anything. A very sweep it under the rug and forget about it type mentality. • Lack of professional communication standards, leading to embarrassing communication exchanges, especially over petty items. • There seems to be a blame culture inter teams. • Peculiar clique culture in management, both inter and intra management, meaning if you fall out of favor you are going to fall far and it is near to impossible to gain favor again. You must always say yes to survive. • For a product company there is a lack of commitment to building a proper product team with relevant experience, leading the teams to be come frustrated when development is slow, or situations are not handled appropriately. • This lack of commitment means that all areas are riddled with the culture of small fixes and patching it up rather than solutioning properly. • The “vision” or direction of the product is never fully transparent and what is conveyed changes frequently. • The compensation is not competitive and the ESOP in my opinion is not worthwhile as a substitute. • Some parts of senior management seem more concerned with there public profile than letting the work speak for itself through the success of the company. • High turn over of other teams leading to unnessasery issues

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