Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
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#2Here is the funny part:
If you somehow land a job at these companies, you will notice that recent hires (your new colleague) are not particularly good at their work but they are experts in gaming the system.
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#3An interview process like that should make you wonder what the ongoing employee appraisal process is like.
From outside it looks very much like HR is out of control.
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#4While this is pretty outrageous process wise, it’s not unheard of that many non-FAANG companies follow some of these “standardized” approach such as meeting with some “talent advisor” and filling out some automated forms in the form of testing your “behavioral” side.
Truth is many tech (and non-tech) companies are so bloated in their Human Resources departments, it’s beyond even point of productivity saturation.
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#5Hot damn this canonical dude is more full of shit than I ever possibly could have imagined lmao. I love Linux, I really do. I enjoy writing software for ig as a career choice. This has nothing to do with my love for Linux lol. But wow.
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#6Insane. I don't change jobs often (last time was 15 years ago), but the last two both worked pretty much the same: application, weeding interview, serious interview, decision. I've also sat on the other side, and we ran it the same way.
I can imagine a huge company throwing a third interview in there, because HR has to justify its existence, but more than that is abusive and - more importantly - useless. Actually counterproductive, because talented people are not going to put up with it.
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#7Matches my experience, for the first step I was given a lengthy questionare and told it would be about 12 pages of answers. Nope'd out immediately.
It's a shame because the product and my Hiring Manager seemed great, I'm curious what candidates make it through.
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#8Insane. I don't change jobs often (last time was 15 years ago), but the last two both worked pretty much the same: application, weeding interview, serious interview, decision. I've also sat on the other side, and we ran it the same way. I can imagine a huge company throwing a third interview in there, because HR has to justify its existence, but more than that is abusive and - more importantly - useless. Actually cou…
On paper Canonical is a company I'd rather enjoy working for. I love the product (despite its flaws) and have a lot of relevant experience.
I wouldn't even object to the long interview process as such.
Written materials? Sure! I'd love to see the bar raised on developers' writing skills! Why not.
But man, that High School question? The implicit agism and the shere fuck-you irrelevance of my circumstances 35 years ago just stops me in my tracks every time.
Are you hiring me or 16-year-old me? Well then.
Last time this came up here, Shuttleworth popped up to tell us it was just what they needed so there you go. No need to apply. :shrug:
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#9Matches my experience, for the first step I was given a lengthy questionare and told it would be about 12 pages of answers. Nope'd out immediately. It's a shame because the product and my Hiring Manager seemed great, I'm curious what candidates make it through.
> I'm curious what candidates make it through.
compliant ones I would expect, which seems to be the aim of the process.
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#10This is from a very long time ago, but if you dig deep enough you can still find this gem. From memory, and not the precise wording:
The Canonical jobs page used to say you should only apply if you have accomplished something extraordinary in your life. If you haven't you should apply here, where here liked to the US government website.
EDIT:
I misremembered the site, it was not on canonical.com but http://markshuttleworth.com/work.html
Around 2004 it said:
"Brilliant. Tell me about things you've done in which you have truly excelled. I don't mind if you did brilliantly at school and then crashed at university because you were more interested in something else, just tell me about the something else! It could be an open source piece of software you wrote and which has been widely used. It could be a small business you've setup and run. It could be that you were consistently in the top 10% of your class at school or university. It could be that you are a natural leader or organiser. If you haven't done brilliantly at something in life, try applying here, you'll fit in just fine"
The very last "here" was a link to http://www.whitehouse.gov/
https://web.archive.org/web/20040606095703/http://www.marksh...