Great team, terrible executives - Technical Support Engineer II Canonical Employee Review

2.0
Jun 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The support engineering team is made up of incredible, supportive, talented people. 10/10 would work with again. Adjacent departments are also filled with highly intelligent, highly competent engineers. Middle management, similarly great.

Cons

Executive suite is short-sighted, jumps from project to project or 'priority' to 'priority', important products with strong customer bases are ignored or abandoned, and the entire enterprise seems haphazard. Further, Mark Shuttleworth is a toxic personality, and puts more into 'dictator' than 'benevolent' in his title of 'benevolent dictator for life'.

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Cons

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4.0
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