The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical in Jul 2023
Interview
Canonical's hiring process is brilliant! I applied for 3 different roles as a Software Engineer and received three written interviews. About 40% of questions there were intersecting while the others were unique for each role. They told me that there were no time restrictions, so it took me about ten days to finish all my essays. Each one should be around 5000 words, as far as I know. So it was about 15000 words there, which took me about 5 evenings. I submitted all of them and received a link for a personality test, with "no strict timeframe" also. After completing the test, I received a rejection for one role the next day without any feedback. For two other positions, I was just ghosted and received rejection after two months for one of them.
Frankly speaking, this is a very mediocre interview experience :)
It's an extremely long process that includes standardized tests, take home assignments, and several rounds of interviews. It was at least 5 rounds long and you interview across different teams.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Canonical (London, England)
Interview
They have a really long, tiring interview process. The first round was a written interview where I had to answer like 15 questions. Then a coding interview with 1 hour time that I could do anytime for 2 weeks. Then I had to take a personality test and they totally ghosted me.
I applied online. I interviewed at Canonical in May 2026
Interview
The written part was unnecessarily long and the coding interview didn't give any feedback but the questions were fair. Online IDE was a bit slow. Some information multiple choice questions were not things that measure competency.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which ones below are not included in standard python libraries?