Good money, remote from all countries, weird evaluation system - Software Engineer II Canonical Employee Review

4.0
27 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary ranges are high, at least in Europe. Although they are moving to a compensation system which aims to normalise this. I.e. they want all engineers to be able to buy 500 cheesburgers per month, how much does this cost in their country? This kind of thing. The remote culture and that the whole company meets every 6 months is really awesome and you get to meet and interact with so many fantastic people. There are a lot of processes in place and rigor.

Cons

Sometimes it feels the we are developing software in a bubble. The evaluation system is weird, in which you get evaluated by your peers and 10% every year is out. This is turning more and more into a popularity contest, where teams are inclined to put good reviews on everyone, so that they don't lose members. And this keeps creating a positivity inflation in reviews

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5.0
18 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

very good. happy so far

Cons

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2.0
23 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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