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4.5

89% would recommend to a friend

(86 total reviews)

Charles Fraenkl

94% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Smartfrog&Canary has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 86 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Smartfrog&Canary 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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86 reviews
5.0
Jun 19, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and a very fun work environment with enthusiastic individuals present every day. Plenty of work from home opportunities and flexibility, with a lot of internal growth potential if you're willing to work hard to move up.

Cons

It's a lot of work, teams can be under a lot of pressure to meet strict timelines at certain times during the year, but overall not a big surprise for a startup in NYC.

2.0
Mar 18, 2020

Downsizing, dishonest, and a bit racist

Recommend
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Pros

Bright office. Fancy parties and events. Some clever teammates.

Cons

So to start, on my very first day, they fired the boss who had hired me, which really set the tone for the rest of my year there. Every other week or so someone would leave the company, and they only had around 40 employees there when I started. The management was also changing month to month, which was partly due to the acquisition by a larger company, but in general all this left employees feeling confused about overall direction and outlook for the company. The biggest irk was management would say from time to time I would still be getting equity, as agreed when I was hired, but never had me sign anything (Surprise: I never got equity). This aspect ended up being pretty openly disrespectful. Advice: Do not work here if you're a woman or minority. Just don't. The atmosphere is cold at times. Certain employees were quite open about not liking the women or minority employees, and not only did the company turn a blind eye to those comments, they ultimately promoted them. The work I was given wasn't very challenging, I would end up bored most of the time, and started looking forward to my next job. To top it all off, after I left, certain managers were pretty clearly trying to prevent me from getting a job at other companies, (it would be mentioned to me at interviews). Wasn't really a problem, but heads up they're a little conspiratorial as well. So, not a *horrible* place to work if you need the paycheck, but in general I would say "not good". Avoid if possible.

1.0
Oct 20, 2018

Poor financial management led to downfall

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great coworkers. Before 2018, this company still had lots of employees and great coworkers. The office was great and lunch was provided.

Cons

Many of the employees had left and the office is not as great. For a hardware company, it lacks too many key positions to enable development. Poor product decisions were made that critically affected the customers. Canary had to make decisions to recover from the poor financial management, now it has to make decisions to recover from becoming irrelevant in the market.

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