Canalyst Reviews

3.7

74% would recommend to a friend

(71 total reviews)

Damir Hot

83% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Canalyst has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 71 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canalyst employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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71 reviews
1.0
11 Nov 2020

Below Average Work Experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Will be very skilled and fast with Excel (keyboard shortcuts will be engrained in your memory). Workplace close to transit.

Cons

Below average work culture (i.e. not enough timely communication, management has quite a few flaws). Some very difficult to work with co-workers (i.e. some poor team players, some very opinionated people that tend to shut down other's ideas and suggestions). The job is very repetitive, majority of the job is basically data entry. After learning the basics, there are few new learning opportunities. Not everyone presented with same growth opportunities (in terms of career). Not enough diversity in the ERA team.

1.0
1 Feb 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Alright place to do short-term interning - Learn to become good at financial modeling

Cons

- Uncompetitive salary - All work no life culture - Inadequately accommodates the needs of employees - Organization culture promotes individualistic tendencies and not a culture where everyone is treated like a family member. - Organization lacks transparency especially when complaints and problems are brought up. Numerous issues brought up have been treated as either insignificant by management or dragged out for months. - Communication is a serious issue and often communication is dropped all together and no one knows what is happening. Communicating things to the management is especially tiresome because they don’t listen. - Analysts and more senior associates leading the sector teams don’t have real in depth knowledge. When questions are asked, they often cannot give answers with real substance and often questions are deferred to someone else. - High employee turnover which means endless time spent on training new people and having to rework team dynamics. - Super repetitive job with little variations

2.0
23 Jul 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good learning experience at first. Equity ownership in the company - the business is achieving solid growth. It's a relaxed environment where you can do your 9-5 in sweatpants with no pressure, if that's what you're into. You can work from home in perpetuity and virtually never have to talk to anyone, again, if that's what you're into.

Cons

After about a year you'll have learned all you're going to learn. The ER interns, Associates and 'Analysts' all do essentially the same job - data entry or checking data entry. The job doesn't lead anywhere in finance/capital markets and the ERAs who are doing the CFA exams are likely wasting their time and money. They'll never use 95% of it. Most of the ER staff seem unmotivated to work hard and move up in financial careers. Some focus a lot of time and energy on cryptocurrency in a kind of hail mary attempt to get rich, which is never a good sign.

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