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      Frontend Engineer Interview

      Apr 14, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical (London, England) in Feb 2022

      Interview

      At first, they put you to answer 30 something questions that barely have any contingency with the position you're applying for. Then, you're given a coding assignment that's very simplistic, yet convoluted. If you're applying for a frontend position, you're giving an extremely convoluted and broken api and you're struggling to find out the things you're supposed to fetch from there because there's no documentation, so you end up having to hardcode some stuff (which they negatively reviewed, but they didn't bother making an actual decent API in the first place). The task itself was implementing a simple, three card design using their 'vanilla framework', which seems to me like a ridiculous waste of time to learn, since it's just a bunch of classes that style elements in a certain way. But you end up overwritting a lot of the styles that come by default with vanilla framework, so why did you develop it in the first place? To me, any employer that emphasizes a css framework so much tells me they don't value your experience with css/scss, which is surely more important than using some predefined components. The last straw was getting rejected for really miscellaneous and obvious stuff such as: commit messages, no automated tests, the git readme is the default one, hotloading their framework. Keep in mind that those points weren't mentioned as requirements in the task itself. I didn't bother with them because I didn't find them important (do you seriously think I don't know to change a readme or write a proper commit message with 3 years of experience in web development?). Absolutely zero respect for your time and it's obvious their process is broken. Good luck finding a good candidate.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How do you debug a web page?
      1 Answer
      1

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      Dec 2, 2024
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      A very lengthy interview process where they plainly reject at the end without any reasoning. I had to first complete a long written essay that goes pretty deep into my high school (NOT college), three technical interviews (which all went very well, and I really appreciate the interviewers), one stupid aptitude test, one stupid behavioural assessment, one "Talent Scientist" interview and one with the hiring lead. All the rest of the interviewers were very warm and shared positive feedback. The last one was the hiring lead interview. From the start I knew he was not interested. I don't know if it was some racist discrimination or something, but he was clearly giving an attitude like I was wasting his time. I barely talked with him for 30 mins vs more than 1 hour with other interviewers. If they wanted to, they could've rejected me after the first interview, or at least after the first three interviews. But, giving positive feedback till last round and sending a blanket rejection email template is just straight up unprofessional. I mean, at that point I had given 3 months of my life just interviewing there. Glad I didn't end up there. PS: Again, I truly appreciate the first three technical interviewers. I had well over one hour of discussion with them.

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