The bulls**t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give
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Re: The bulls**t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give
#2Discussed a while ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735678
Re: The bulls**t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give
#3Some employers approach this as more is better.
I’ve had an employer do multiple days of on site psychometrics
Doubt that improved the hiring but that’s how they rolled
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#4What this tells me is Canonical gets far more applicants than they have positions.
But the kinds of people this filter likely selects for doesn't seem like what I'd be interested in, just strange.
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#6Sounds like their application process works. If someone is unwilling to fill out a basic questionnaire they are probably aren't a good candidate. The questions seem reasonable and they aren't asking for you to write a book for each one.
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#7Sounds like their application process works. If someone is unwilling to fill out a basic questionnaire they are probably aren't a good candidate. The questions seem reasonable and they aren't asking for you to write a book for each one.
25 questions, some of which would require a paragraph or more to adequately answer, is not "a basic questionnaire," is completely inappropriate to ask someone to do before even an initial phone screen, and is artisanal small batch bullshit of the highest (lowest?) quality. Whoever put this together should be fired, and the people defending it should be ashamed of themselves.
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#8Sounds like their application process works. If someone is unwilling to fill out a basic questionnaire they are probably aren't a good candidate. The questions seem reasonable and they aren't asking for you to write a book for each one.
The questionnaire looks pretty reasonable, but I'd be concerned about the sketchy looking "Psychometric assessments" that's next in the list.
Also, at what point will the candidate be able to vet whether Canonical is a suitable match? Is that only after this questionnaire, psych test, and take-home assignment?
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#9Sounds like their application process works. If someone is unwilling to fill out a basic questionnaire they are probably aren't a good candidate. The questions seem reasonable and they aren't asking for you to write a book for each one.
Yeah, I'm sure their application process works great, for keeping their pipeline nice and empty of potentially worthwhile candidates. These questions are anything but "reasonable", either in their quantity or in the depth of demanded response.
I'm sure that the team at Canonical feels this process works for them, and maybe it does, but I'd love to see what metrics they have to show that it does. (Or maybe they for some reason have to practice "hire slow, fire never"...)
Re: The bulls**t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give
#10What this tells me is Canonical gets far more applicants than they have positions. But the kinds of people this filter likely selects for doesn't seem like what I'd be interested in, just strange.
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