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Re: Canonicals Interview Process

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

kiitos wrote: post #39
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #34

> I got three "strong yes", eight "yes", and a single "no" from Mark Shuttleworth Mark interviews are always the last in the process but since they’re the only ones that carry an automatic fail despite all other interviewer scores, they should be done first.

An interview process that allows a single individual to have absolute veto power over multiple prior interview evaluators is, pretty obviously, broken.

Canonical’s interview process is all kinds of broken. This has been discussed widely on the internet and internally but as long as Mark (who is the main driver and firmly believes it’s a revolution in how hiring is done) and his hiring minions continue to justify it and refuse to change it, it will remain so.

Re: Canonicals Interview Process

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

michaelt wrote: post #40
artyom wrote: post #5

I had the same experience. The interview process was super long and nowhere near completion, got through a few phases, got rejected with no explanation in the middle of it. The "psychometric assessments" were specially dumb and I started questioning if I wanted to work at Canonical at that time anyway. There's places where HR and processes as a whole look like just incompetency. And other places where the amount of p…

> 32,000 open positions? Honestly, I very much doubt a company with ~1200 employees has 32,000 open positions. More likely it's HR reposting the same 20 job ads every day to keep them at the top of the linkedin news feed or some nonsense like that.

Canonical is a remote company so location doesn’t matter but - what they do is, they post the same ad but selecting specific countries or cities to get better SEO positioning in most geographies. You’ll see the same position advertised for a bunch of cities (hence the inflated count) but the job posting text will actually say it’s remote.

It’s like “growth hacking” but for hiring post positioning.

Re: Canonicals Interview Process

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

spearmint1992 wrote: post #29
dingnuts wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

based solely on anecdotes and rumors and feelings, I wonder if it's a nonprofit problem. Reminds me of the kind of grift you read about in various NGO charity type organizations

Canonical isn't a nonprofit. It's technically a for-profit.

Has always been openly a 100% commercial company, no need to qualify it with a “technically”. Maybe you’re thinking about the Ubuntu Foundation?

Re: Canonicals Interview Process

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Post by AnotherGoodName »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #33

The interview process says a lot about a company. Honestly, I would have run away at the very beginning with this weird focus on high school. If you can't be professional in your recruitment process, it's a big red flag. Assuming everything is true, he did actually dodge a bullet.

I suspect the make up of this company is going to be the most extreme of extreme mono cultures.

The ‘what marks did you get in high school mathematics’ alone as a screening question (apparently an auto rejection if it’s not top 10%) and the ceo interviewing everyone personally gives a vibe of ‘you must have walked a very similar path in life as the boss to work here.’

Like there doesn’t seem to be any room to be the slightest bit outside of the lane of the ceos personal expectations. What the hell is this company like on the inside? A clone factory i assume?

Re: Canonicals Interview Process

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Post by hintymad »

> So I exercised my GDPR rights, and asked to be communicated everything pertaining to my interviews.

This is amazing. Does the US have a similar law for us to get interview feedbacks like this? I can become a single-issue voter for this law /jk

Re: Canonicals Interview Process

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Post by frosting1337 »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #41
kiitos wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An interview process that allows a single individual to have absolute veto power over multiple prior interview evaluators is, pretty obviously, broken.

Canonical’s interview process is all kinds of broken. This has been discussed widely on the internet and internally but as long as Mark (who is the main driver and firmly believes it’s a revolution in how hiring is done) and his hiring minions continue to justify it and refuse to change it, it will remain so.

Can't really change much if the CEO and founder think it's a good idea.

Re: Canonicals Interview Process

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Post by frosting1337 »

hintymad wrote: post #47

> Their application was a duplicate with the same email address, Why do people use "they" and "their" for a single person? Is this the requirement for not misgendering someone?

Using a 3rd person possessive pronoun like this isn't unusual or "promoting woke", it's English.
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