I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Canonical in Sept 2023
Interview
After sending my CV they sent me a "written interview" of no less then *100 QUESTIONS AND SUBQUESTIONS*. These in-depth questions dig deep into my career of 10+ years and include: - Completely irrelevant questions such as "How did you rank in your final year of high school in languages and the arts" - Too broad questions like "What kinds of software projects have you worked on before? Which operating systems, development environments, languages, databases?" Having 10+ years of experience at 5 different companies, I can't possibly sum it all up in one question. That's what the CV is for. - Strange questions like "Who are Canonical's key competitors, and how should Canonical set about winning?" or "What would you most want to change about Canonical?" How would I know? I am not working for them This written interview is ridiculous, time-consuming, and an utter disrespect of my time. I obviously withdrew my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your experience with large-scale IT operations, SAAS, or other running services, in a devops or IS or system administration capacity Describe the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly habits you expect in a well-run software engineering team, for individuals and the team
It's an extremely long process that includes standardized tests, take home assignments, and several rounds of interviews. It was at least 5 rounds long and you interview across different teams.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Canonical (London, England)
Interview
They have a really long, tiring interview process. The first round was a written interview where I had to answer like 15 questions. Then a coding interview with 1 hour time that I could do anytime for 2 weeks. Then I had to take a personality test and they totally ghosted me.
The first round is a bunch of questions like 30 or so where you have to describe your expierence, personal and academical information. Then there is a asynch technical interview and a psychology test.
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