Canstar Reviews

Pros

Welcoming culture. Opportunities to take ownership of a team or project in a mid-sized company. Great people in each team make it easy to ask questions and learn.

Advice to Management

Hire more mid level managers so that group executives are not trying to be line manager for three departments.

Pros

Canstar have some great people and being small there is a lot you can contribute to add value. Your efforts will be appreciated but not necessarily rewarded. A positive attitude will get you far.

Advice to Management

Talk to people and find out what is important to each when deciding what incentives are appropriate. A table tennis table is quite reflective of the lack of awareness of what staff value and the obvious drive to employ cheap young and inexperienced labour who bring nothing more than a can do attitude with no training to help them fulfill this belief in themselves. You need to spend money appropriately to make money (and to retain your top performers who clean up the mess of others til they drop in exhaustion). You need to value staff members for them to value their job.

Pros

The drones who follow the company line are full of cringe but I like a lot of my co-workers who know what it's really like and speak freely about Canstar curse and we all have heaps of free time to look for better jobs and follow the race out of this unrewarding and boring place. Yes the air conditioning can be a bit cold but that should be the least of Cansta's concerns.

Advice to Management

Time for a change because you do not leave but all the rest of the workers come and go.

Pros

I have had a very positive experience at Canstar over the last 9 months and cannot understand some of the negative reviews on this site.

From the get go I was given exciting work projects and a lot of time and energy was invested in bringing me in and training me up.

The people and culture is unlike any other organisation that I have worked for. Management puts a big emphasis on the corporate culture and puts a big emphasis on only hiring talent that fits in with the warm, collaborative atmosphere of the office.

The organisation is growing very rapidly, providing significant opportunities for new and existing staff. There are also many opportunities for internal career progression.

Pros

My experience at Canstar was very positive. The people who work there made the experience absolutely wonderful. The management team was very open and I enjoyed being able to speak with executives at any time without feeling any different to them. Canstar is a place of continual learning and I enjoyed how every day was different. I was always working on new projects and working with different people. There's also so many benefits to working at Canstar such as gym memberships, massages, free breakfasts and team lunches. The staff are really social and enjoy getting to know each other which made my time at Canstar a great experience. The location in Brisbane CBD is stunning and so close to everything as well. I would definitely recommend Canstar to others.

Advice to Management

Continue to keep inspiring your employees! I really enjoyed the innovative culture of Canstar; always growing and evolving. By keeping this alive, it'll keep the company moving forward.

Pros

Generally a fun place to work, big on social/drinking events
Work/life balance is pretty good

Advice to Management

Your entire business runs on Microsoft Excel, upgrade to a newer version and computers that actually work

Pros

New office in the city is clean and has nice views from Level 21 of the Suncorp building.
The environment is not too stressful or demanding.
Plenty of good stuff to learn in relation to personal finance.
They have a ping pong table now.
Little requirement to work long hours most of the time.

Pros

I've worked at many organisations over the last 10 years and I can honestly say Canstar is my favourite. Both from the friendly encouraging culture and from the rewarding job. The execs are really friendly and participate in social events.

I find it hard to believe some of the earlier negative reviews. I've been working here for almost 2 years and I can't make sense of them. My only guess is that possibly there was bad apple in management previously and a few employers got burnt. With an organisation under 60 employees it's possible someone in management can breed anxiety amongst staff. But from what I've experienced since starting 2 years ago it's extremely positive, encouraging, everybody seems to understand that we're working towards the same goal. I haven't experienced any lying or back stabbing so I can only assume those people have now left.

Pros

Hard to think. Free coffee

Advice to Management

leave the company

Pros

None none none none none

Advice to Management

Not worth writing anything here. They don't listen.