I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Canonical in Jun 2022
Interview
It was a long, tedious and with very little information about the interviews process. First, it took several weeks and several tests to talk to a real person. Then, I didn’t get information about the interviews I was going to have. After three interviews I got a rejection email without any feedback.
After spending two months with the process I feel disappointed and that I wasted a lot of time for nothing.
The position has been available for at least a year and now I understand why: they are looking for the golden and perfect candidate but such thing doesn’t exist.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A lot of open management questions which don’t have a correct or wrong answer. You will get the job if you say exactly what they want to hear, which it’s impossible to know since you won’t have the slightest clue about the interviews before facing them. Impossible to prepare yourself in advance.
Submitted resume online. Waited for one week. Then hiring lead connected me, and ask me to finished a written interview, which contains 50 questions. It took me a whole day to answer all them them.
tldr; After hours of interviews and exercises they ghost and give no feedback.
I managed to complete Canonical's "early stage" interviews - 4 one hour interviews and 4 exercises (1 written, 2 psychometric, and a coding exercise). Although I had great conversations and loved meeting everyone (best part), Canonical ghosted for 2 weeks despite reaching out to my hiring manager for any updates. When they did respond, it was the most generic email: "We are writing to let you know that we have reviewed your application. We regret to inform you that we shall not be progressing your application further for this particular role". Given the progress through the process I would've expected some correspondence or feedback, but they just send an inpersonal email.
If they provided ANY kind of feedback that would definitely get rid of the question marks. Instead, Canonical conveys that they do not care about you or the time you spent in their overly long process, even if you do make it to the further rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Normal interview questions around Linux skills, software architecture, and management skill.
I applied online. I interviewed at Canonical (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Oct 2024
Interview
Long introduction. They ask to include grade ot graduation and high school and copy of you diploma. Copy of a diploma is something companies request after the offer.
Don't waste your time with this company.