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Smartfrog&Canary reviews

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
1.0
Mar 30, 2018

Market opportunity missed

Recommend
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Pros

Back in 2015- 2016, the team was incredible. Canary was the first smart camera product to hit the market. Amazing times at the company, very optimistic about the outlook.

Cons

From there on, the company went downhill. Instead of focusing on the end user and letting product/tech drive, the focus was on the CEO's vision. Except, parts of the vision that were realized did not yield expected results, so priorities were constantly changing and that resulted in a lot of frustration, missed deadlines and barely any movement forward. Management thought the problem was execution. Rest of the company thought the problem was the direction. Still, making end users as happy as possible was never first on any list of priorities. Fast - forward to now. Nothing's changed, except almost everyone who wasn't fired in a few rounds of layoffs has quit.

2.0
Jan 15, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Salary and benefits at Canary were pretty great. People were initially super enthusiastic about the product and mission. Office in Chelsea was fantastic as well.

Cons

Company culture quickly became pretty political and team managers did a poor job of running their teams. There wasn’t much HR with regards to the gender bias and sexism in the company either.

1.0
Oct 25, 2017

Sinking ship

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people to work with.

Cons

You are consistently told one thing by management or promised things as far as raises and what not but never came to fruition. No room for growth and management was always poorly critiqued by their employees yet nothing ever came of it.

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