Canonicals Interview Process
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Canonicals Interview Process
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#2What an interesting use of GDPR.
Boy do i wish there was something analogous where i am.
Have had identical experiences with large-named places.
I guess its just hard to run a fan club where everyone wants in, you have to grasp at straws to dismiss. Paraeto at work again.
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#3What an interesting use of GDPR. Boy do i wish there was something analogous where i am. Have had identical experiences with large-named places. I guess its just hard to run a fan club where everyone wants in, you have to grasp at straws to dismiss. Paraeto at work again.
Interestingly this mirrors in parts my experience with Mozilla. I have experience with couple of megacorps and they were always more organized than those folks and the folks in this story.
Maybe an open source org hiring problem?
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#4> At some point, someone bought him a plate, and he started to eat, without excusing himself about doing so
Whoa, that dude is full of himself.
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#5I 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 people, processes and steps sounds like a mafia to employ a lot of people to achieve absolutely nothing (32,000 open positions?). This REALLY sounds like the latter (even Mark complains about why he's wasting time with a duplicate application).
Very very clever actionable using GDPR. And totally within the spirit of the law. I'll use it.
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#6"So now I'm really curious about the decision process here, as it seems that every interviewer's opinion is ignored if Shuttleworth puts some red marks."
Umm yes? That's how it works everywhere, highest boss in the chain has right of refusal on new hires.
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#7What an interesting use of GDPR. Boy do i wish there was something analogous where i am. Have had identical experiences with large-named places. I guess its just hard to run a fan club where everyone wants in, you have to grasp at straws to dismiss. Paraeto at work again.
Interestingly this mirrors in parts my experience with Mozilla. I have experience with couple of megacorps and they were always more organized than those folks and the folks in this story. Maybe an open source org hiring problem?
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
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#8I 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?
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#9These days, the effort required for company-specific long essay applications hardly seems justified. With Generative AI readily available, it’s easy to tailor essays to appeal to particular—even narcissistic—preferences, unless someone genuinely enjoys the writing process.
As a result, the whole system has devolved into a “garbage in, garbage out” exercise. What began as a meaningful way to assess candidates has largely been undermined, and the original intent behind these evaluations—whether skills-based or culture fit—has been lost.
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#10So it’s another inhumane interview process from a company led by an apparent psychopath. The author certainly dodged a bullet and graciously wrote this warning. Don’t work for them, they are vampires. Go elsewhere, your life is worth more and you always have a choice.