Candescent reviews

2.5

28% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)

Brendan Tansill

24% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Candescent has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 131 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Candescent employee rating is 33% below average for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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131 reviews
1.0
Sep 12, 2025

Pretty stupid company

Recommend
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Pros

- Laid back people - Mostly relax deadlines and work culture

Cons

- Low pay - Unstable leadership - Directionless company future plan - Employment uncertainty - No happy hours - Badge check in, and office hour time monitoring - Expensive canteen lunch - No bonus - No promotion

1.0
Jul 15, 2025

Dont

Recommend
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Pros

Technically they pay you Tech stack is cutting edge Opportunity to see lots of the SDLC

Cons

Crap pay Horrible product organization Blind management Helicopter parent style upper management

5.0
Jun 4, 2025

Good Company

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

No micro management Good people to work with Good benefits Very good work life balance Fair pay everyone wants more money though

Cons

Like all massive companies there's a lot of red tape. Teams are disorganized as is usual with massive companies. Work isn't super difficult if you're a junior dev you won't learn a lot as a lot of the work is already done. As in a lot of libraries already exist to use in front-end so not a lot of challenge and you won't learn a lot. As in you won't be building things out from scratch you just Re use existing code and libs. Backend is the same, not a lot of complicated work. Pretty straightforward work for both front end and Backend. Basically, you're put in a box and don't get to learn new technologies as there's teams for everything. You can ask to work on stuff of course so that's good.

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