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Pretty damning comment. I don’t know the backstory here, but it seems aimed at management not doing a good job given the praise he lavished on the tech teams.
Can someone here fill me on the issues they’re facing?
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He worked mostly on LXD[1]. This seems related to the recent move[2] of Canonical taking over the LXD project, discussed here[3]. [1]: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/canonicals-loses-promine... [2]: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/ [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36592343
"Following the announcement of my resignation, Canonical decided to pull LXD out of the Linux Containers projects and relocate it to a full in-house project."
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I did. I passed all rounds and was extended an offer, but the pay was way below what I expected and so I declined. They also don’t sponsor visas or relocation, which was a dealbreaker for me as well.
Is it usual to go through all rounds of an interview process without getting a salary range and asking if they sponsor visas and pay for relocation? These are round one questions for me and I assumed everyone else.
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Questions like when have you been happiest in your career? Unhappiest? A bunch of stuff about their core values and examples of how you or previous organizations have reflected those, have not reflected those, when two came into tension, etc.
Oh, those are pretty standard job interview questions; I wouldn't call that a psych questionnaire, but that's just me.
And at the end of the day it's the asymmetry of their process that I have an issue with.
He is a great guy , i helped debugging ZFSMount problems with him - which causes LXD Container restarts to fail. It was just solved in previous release ( usual suspect , it is because of snap. ) . I would like to contribute on his new opensource projects.
Can I ask about the unusual punctuation? I’ve never seen a country where you put a space before the comma or where you space around parens like that. I’m only aware of the French adding a space before ! and ?
So is this like retaliation? Or an effort to reduce Stephane's influence over LXD? Or was it just that he'd been the one who pushed for developing LXD in the open, and with him gone they figured 'why bother'?
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Can I ask what you use LXD for?
- if you have a good hardware , you can easily build digital ocean / aws lightsail like environment with a single install in 5 mins of configuration - A VPS Like experience for both Containers and QEMU - Quick and easy multi-tenancy - Very easy to build development enviorment isloated from the system. - Isolation host for docker containers. - Automatic networking support with DHCP , OVN or MacVLAN if you have multipl…
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> It also struck me as a red flag that Canonical is 100% BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and they do not provide a work computer. You can apply for a _loan_ to buy a computer for work, but they will not pay for one. If a company is too cheap to provide a computer at a job where you work remotely and exclusively on a computer, I don't want to be a part of that company. That doesn't seem so bad to me. I have always prefe…
The biggest reason I separate work and personal devices is that I do not want my personal devices subject to discovery if my employer is involved in a lawsuit. I can't stress this enough- if my employer is sued, I don't want the opposing law firm to get copies of my data. The second reason is that I don't want my personal devices subject to security monitoring, and most companies that at least pretend to care about s…
Why won't your personal devices be subject to discovery anyways?
Canonical HR is the worst. They use a discredited "personality test" company. Sample report https://www.docdroid.net/3hDIf3Y/perform-sample-report-may-2...