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Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
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Re: Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least it's an easy way to weed out companies early in the process. Behavioral interviews work both ways, after all.
I am not against behavioral interview if it’s part of the loop, but these attempts to force candid to answer some standardized questions make no sense. Especially you can easily come up with many of the answers using GPT now a days anyways. I for one don’t even have access to these when I interview candidates and I am pretty sure HR doesn’t even look at them or even have a quantitative way to judge them or verify the…
In this case, the company seemed to be very hung up on irrelevant bullsh*t. Huge red flag.
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#23This is basically my experience too. For me it was demeaning, exhausting and a complete waste of time.
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#24I interviewed at Canonical, doing all of the written stuff, and got an offer. But in the end I turned them down because their compensation wasn't competitive.
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#25Just seem like Canonical in a nut shell. Burning energy on nonsense going nowhere.
Actually, nonsense interview is another red flag to watch out for when applying a job.
Some companies uses long and pointless interviews to discover and collect legally sound reasons to reject candidates without revealing the true reason of rejections (could be based on race, gender, age, disability, religion etc).
But, you probably don't want to work for a bad company anyway, so I guess just be happy for the fact that now you don't have to.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Yeah...I applied when I was job hunting at the beginning of the year and I hard stopped on the high school question. I've got over 30 years of relevant experience and if that's what they're asking, I'm obviously not the sort of person they're looking for. Implicit ageism describes it well. Was it age discrimination? I wouldn't go that far based on what I saw, but they either don't want older/experienced people or the…
I just trod water through my high school (read secondary school in the UK) years. Like you I am not the boy I used to be so hiring 'him' would not be a good fit.
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#27This 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://markshutt…
Huge red flag. What extraordinary thing did Canonical accomplish by the way? Making a Debian distro for first year uni students?
You're reading too much into this. It is just a casual joke from a long time ago and I find the rest of the copy is quite good.
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#28This 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://markshutt…
Huge red flag. What extraordinary thing did Canonical accomplish by the way? Making a Debian distro for first year uni students?
Canonical’s greatest contribution was probably distributing Ubuntu installation CDs for free anywhere in the world on demand.
This was a pretty big deal at the time before broadband was easily available.
Canonical was also focused on user friendliness more than any other distro. Which was also important for desktop Linux’s growth.
I must be missing something, but TBH I’m finding it hard to remember any major technical contributions from Canonical.
They’ve also had a pretty disturbing history of NIH syndrome, wasting years of effort on alternatives to what the rest of the Linux community is going forward with before deciding to abandon their alternative.
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#29This 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://markshutt…
Huge red flag. What extraordinary thing did Canonical accomplish by the way? Making a Debian distro for first year uni students?
> Huge red flag
What could be worse than a small joke from 20 years ago?
Re: Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
#30Here 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.
understandable, as each interviewing systems effectively selects people good at passing that system.
if your interviewing system is heavy on personality tests, you'll get people that are strong at gaming personality tests.
if your interviewing system is heavy on technology, you'll get people that are strong at gaming technology.
if what you get is not what you want then most likely this means that middle management and upper management are somewhat disconnected from the actual work that has to be performed.