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Using a 3rd person possessive pronoun like this isn't unusual or "promoting woke", it's English.
Thanks. I rarely saw this usage before, hence the question
Canonical brought us some interesting concepts, like cloud-init, and it's been my first choice for cloud-images, but this toxic culture of them motivates me to choose a better image. Or just something like Nixos.
> 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.
That would be impossible since there is only one Mark but a multitude of people who can conduct the previous interviews.
Most of the folks I know that work or have worked at Canonical are smart and deeply humble, even worryingly so. I say "worryingly" in the sense that their hiring process seems to weed out people who could speak up, question authority or otherwise show hints of critical thinking. Not my cup of tea.
They all talk about Mark and make fun of him behind his back. Most won't say something to him to his face because he let's them know they would lose their jobs. Your paycheck requires you can't speak up. Take the cash or leave.
Do your own time. Take your paycheck. Don't rock the boat.
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Thanks. I rarely saw this usage before, hence the question
It's been standard conversational English since the 1300s.
Progressed pretty far into the process. 94% on intelligence assessment and positive on the behavioral. Then in a call with HR, I was was told a COVID vaccine was required. I said I was unwilling to take an mRNA vaccine. Rejected by email after that. (I did get Novavax a couple of months later when it became available in my area).
Overall, my impression was negative. Success at Canonical means you fit into a narrow model, subject yourself to unwarranted character judgments, and don't have an opinion about much.
> 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?
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It is unusual to be interviewed by someone more than three levels above the position you are applying for. At a small company, you might well be interviewed by all of your teammates, your prospective manager, the HR person and the owner/president/CEO... in the course of one day. At a large company, an IC might not even see their supervisor's manager's director's vice-president until they had been working for six mont…
>It is unusual to be interviewed by someone more than three levels above the position you are applying for. This happened to me, and it was by far my worst interview ever. Early on in my career right after graduating I got interviewed for a Jr. Sysadmin position at a high frequency trading firm of approx ~1000 employees. The first few behavioral interviews they repeated the exact same questions, including some soft l…
I made time during a family emergency, and attended a call on US west coast time while living in EU (was supposed to be 9PM for me but they pushed it to 10PM right before due to recruiter messing up the invite and having it off by a week).
He didn't ask any relevant questions. He didn't seem interested. He just looked like he was doing a favor to someone that asked him to give me a shot. Original call was supposed to be 1h, then after reschedule it was 30m, but he thanked me for my time after 20 minutes. Ofc I got rejected after, even though the people before had good opinions of me.
All in all, if you're doing hiring, at least try to look interested. phew.
I am fascinated at how this has actually lasted so long without imploding the place - did Mark stop being a cheapskate on salary so people will tolerate this process? Or is it just banking on their good name and mostly getting to work on free software?
Maybe the reality is most jobs aren't that hard once you have some baseline skills? While I don't love this interview process, I'm certain there are plenty of great people filtered out of the standard interview process in big tech. If everyone is using the same criteria, they are all competing for the same group of candidates. Using other processes, no matter how whack-a-doodle, will give you a completely different p…
that feels very different from Mark requiring your high school maths grades.