What is the hiring process like at Canonical?

Very Inclusive hiring process which comprises of a written assessment, psychometric test and team interviews

the hiring process has at least 6 stages and you can get ditched at the end.

none, everything is just a bluff.

You receive 40 questions during the selection process that are written to get more insights and strategy plans from the candidates for free, rather than paying professionals for case studies.

Remote work Smart people Travel to interesting locations

360 review process coupled with PIP quotas breeds toxic culture. Pay is very low for the industry. Interview process reflects the internal culture of the company.

Only ubuntu is worth it. Roadmap sessions are good opportunity for ppl to meet but people are usually humiliated in their presentations to c*. if you have no interaction with c* then its fine

Its a wierd organization. No body is convinced about recruitment process, performance management , delivery. Most of things ard micromanaged with no authority worth with any body apart from ceo and may be cto. Performance management is a joke. In general people are judged in terms of goals and targets. Here it is more of popularity contest which they claim as 360. If you are popular you donot need to do anything.. no need to deliver anything. Just try to be hero joining sessions and presentations. No body including hr is convinced but hr will claim they are so proud of this recruitment and performance process. The popularity contest ensure 1. people who do not like it anyways leave 2. Other people who are juniors or new are removed. People leaving does not matter as dont seem to care. Very few people stay more that 1-2 years. They should analyze employee aging and aging of people who leave or made to leave. They wont care anyways.

No pros for Canonical’s hiring process

* Lower salaries * No value for candidate’s time

Opportunity to work on opensource projects Fully remote

* Spineless management - managers, directors, VPs...none of them have any real power to do anything, and they're solely focused on keeping their job/salary intact; they will let the CEO and HR destroy and humiliate their teams and won't stand up for their teams no matter how unfair their teams are treated * CEO's approval is required for even for the tiniest of the decisions - the company is essentially his toy * No real pay raises - even talk of it is seen as a Bad Thing (otherwise would be stamped as "cultural misfit", lack of "passion" for the job, and so on) * Stack-ranking of employees twice a year, which is nothing but a popularity contest and pseudoscience at best; the bottom ~10% will be PIPed out; bottom 20% won't get any bonus/payraise (but even higher rating wouldn't get anything meaningful) * Graduates and Associates will be fired if they fail promotion within a year * HR operate with an iron-fist - no disagreements are allowed (either will be ignored completely or fired silently) * Zero career progression - management will use any excuse to reject promotion (because "we are better than everyone else, and know better than everyone else in the world") * The company encourages and rewards "heroes" who become bottlenecks, dominate decision-making and take-over every meeting * Very high attrition rate circa 20-30% (due to toxic work environment, high workload, 10% PIP+termination every 6 months, random firing, and so on) * Insane hiring process - takes months, only the very desperate put up with that as good ones typically get better offers elsewhere & quickly too * Long hours, high pressure & toxic work environment which can't be fixed with a couple "well-being webinars" they organise - it's as if the company hates its employees! * Involuntary time-off twice a year (one in Aug and one in Dec, 10 days each, 20 days of PTOs prebooked per year!) * Employees spend considerable time in the recruitment process for which there's no benefit (not counted towards 360) and as such the regular work suffers and had to be completed overnight or weekends * CEO surrounds himself with yes-men. He thinks those leave Canonical are those not "aligned" with his vision, and those stay share his vision. But the reality is, the vast majority of the senior management who stay are sycophants who always "support" and praise him so that they can get by comfortably and stay out of friction for their job/pay and mental health It used to be a benevolent opensource company, but there's nothing "Ubuntu" about Canonical today. It's a ruthless Corporation which milks the opensource Community and FOSS while contributing barely anything back and treat employees with complete mistrust and like slaves. A toxic culture driven by fear, PIPs, threats and passive-aggression (HR head is from Amazon!).

Very Inclusive hiring process which comprises of a written assessment, psychometric test and team interviews

the hiring process has at least 6 stages and you can get ditched at the end.

None but a decent salary

Almost impossible job to get, complicated and energy draining recruitment processes compared with sounding and reputable companies like Oracle, IBM,hp, etc. Poor culture and practices

Opportunity to work on opensource projects Fully remote

* Spineless management - managers, directors, VPs...none of them have any real power to do anything, and they're solely focused on keeping their job/salary intact; they will let the CEO and HR destroy and humiliate their teams and won't stand up for their teams no matter how unfair their teams are treated * CEO's approval is required for even for the tiniest of the decisions - the company is essentially his toy * No real pay raises - even talk of it is seen as a Bad Thing (otherwise would be stamped as "cultural misfit", lack of "passion" for the job, and so on) * Stack-ranking of employees twice a year, which is nothing but a popularity contest and pseudoscience at best; the bottom ~10% will be PIPed out; bottom 20% won't get any bonus/payraise (but even higher rating wouldn't get anything meaningful) * Graduates and Associates will be fired if they fail promotion within a year * HR operate with an iron-fist - no disagreements are allowed (either will be ignored completely or fired silently) * Zero career progression - management will use any excuse to reject promotion (because "we are better than everyone else, and know better than everyone else in the world") * The company encourages and rewards "heroes" who become bottlenecks, dominate decision-making and take-over every meeting * Very high attrition rate circa 20-30% (due to toxic work environment, high workload, 10% PIP+termination every 6 months, random firing, and so on) * Insane hiring process - takes months, only the very desperate put up with that as good ones typically get better offers elsewhere & quickly too * Long hours, high pressure & toxic work environment which can't be fixed with a couple "well-being webinars" they organise - it's as if the company hates its employees! * Involuntary time-off twice a year (one in Aug and one in Dec, 10 days each, 20 days of PTOs prebooked per year!) * Employees spend considerable time in the recruitment process for which there's no benefit (not counted towards 360) and as such the regular work suffers and had to be completed overnight or weekends * CEO surrounds himself with yes-men. He thinks those leave Canonical are those not "aligned" with his vision, and those stay share his vision. But the reality is, the vast majority of the senior management who stay are sycophants who always "support" and praise him so that they can get by comfortably and stay out of friction for their job/pay and mental health It used to be a benevolent opensource company, but there's nothing "Ubuntu" about Canonical today. It's a ruthless Corporation which milks the opensource Community and FOSS while contributing barely anything back and treat employees with complete mistrust and like slaves. A toxic culture driven by fear, PIPs, threats and passive-aggression (HR head is from Amazon!).

Only ubuntu is worth it. Roadmap sessions are good opportunity for ppl to meet but people are usually humiliated in their presentations to c*. if you have no interaction with c* then its fine

Its a wierd organization. No body is convinced about recruitment process, performance management , delivery. Most of things ard micromanaged with no authority worth with any body apart from ceo and may be cto. Performance management is a joke. In general people are judged in terms of goals and targets. Here it is more of popularity contest which they claim as 360. If you are popular you donot need to do anything.. no need to deliver anything. Just try to be hero joining sessions and presentations. No body including hr is convinced but hr will claim they are so proud of this recruitment and performance process. The popularity contest ensure 1. people who do not like it anyways leave 2. Other people who are juniors or new are removed. People leaving does not matter as dont seem to care. Very few people stay more that 1-2 years. They should analyze employee aging and aging of people who leave or made to leave. They wont care anyways.