I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical (New York, NY) in Jun 2025
Interview
First you got a "Written Interview" which ask you to answer 30+ questions. Followed by the Python test and psychometric assessment (Thomas GIA). I got rejected after the python psychometric test. I really hope they could ask the candidate to do the Python and psychometric test first as the written interview is really time consuming...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Would you describe yourself as a high quality coder? Why?
Would you describe yourself as an architect of resilient software? If so, why, and in which sorts of applications?
How did you rank in your final year of high school, in your home language? Were you a top student? On what basis would you say that?
Overall 6-8 rounds took around 5months.
Software Architecture interview : gave me some scenario about software development and asked me about what I would do, what tech stacks I would use, how would I manage a project, my open source contributions, agile vs waterfall etc. and other software development practices
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My experiences.
Software Architecture interview : gave me some scenario about software development and asked me about what I would do, what tech stacks I would use, how would I manage a project, my open source contributions, agile vs waterfall etc. and other software development practices
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Canonical (Nairobi) in Apr 2026
Interview
The interview was quite accomodating since the first written interview was for 2 weeks. The second one was for 1 month giving time to do them. It is not suitable for someone seeking for a job in the next one week, month or two
Terrible experience on so many levels. I wrote an 10 page essay and got rejected. Second interview is an automated leetcode style question. Never got past to the third step.