Great people in great location - Anonymous employee CANVAS Technology Employee Review

Trying to solve lots of new technical and market driven problems as Canvas goes after new emerging market for autonomous vehicles in manufacturing environment. Strong and talented staff, especially technical team leads and company leadership with good vision for the company. Strong focus on software development process. Willing to stay focused on developing best technology for computer vision, while many other companies take shortcuts to ship product. Places priority on customer service and adding long-term value through quality products, rather than quick revenue. Successful fundraising path. Dogs in office and chocolate milk!

Compensation below market rates, and equity offers lean at this stage. Unable to hire engineering talent quickly (maybe need higher compensation packages?)....so teams are understaffed for workload and company goals. Market for product is still new and tricky to navigate.

No more raising funds, promising technology areas with lots of industry growth, good work environment.

Organization has changed direction every quarter since acquisition and every six months prior. Unable to figure out how to deliver a valuable product because they refuse to follow structured product development process and are stuck in trial and error mode. Wasted a full year with little to show for it, and unlikely that can continue much longer. Still in denial on fundamental technical issues blocking long-term success and imagine that with more software development, everything is possible. Recent management turnovers brought in new Amazon leadership, but no bottoms up evaluation on what is failing and missing. Leadership is software focused and thinks they can just push harder on top-down schedules without understanding the technology limitations, regulatory hurdles, and product cost models. They know so little about scaling a hardware product that they still think it must be easy (Dunning–Kruger effect).