mhoye
From a private conversation elsewhere: "The Canonical interview process is the best advertisement for Debian that's ever been made."
May 27 at 5:04pmWeb
Show threadOwenMay 27
@mhoye _Can confirm_.
Show threadmhoyeMay 27
@owen Hard same.
Show threadOwenMay 27
@mhoye Solidarity and sympathy, brother.
Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.May 28
@owen @mhoye had a former coworker who worked there and he had nothing good to say about them. Indeed many many warnings about the place.
Show threadOrlando 🇲🇽   ⁂May 27
@mhoye I've applied a couple of times, and apparently I'm just as bad a natural language writer as a programmer... they did not even bother to reply to my application.
Show threadmhoyeMay 27
@0rkk0 My friend, you dodged a bullet you didn't even see.
Show threadTariqMay 27

@mhoye

Years ago I applied for a job at canonical.

The sent me links to online personality tests.

I didn't just reject it, I explained, with evidence, why they were bad, and in fact exclusionary and entrenching inequality.

That tried to argue back. I withdrew.

I was genuinely surprised that an enlightened organisation somehow became do seduced by something so toxic.

Show threadOwenMay 27
@rzeta0 @mhoye I am skeptical that the organization was ever enlightened in the sense you mean. There's a recirculating rumour (I can find examples on Reddit and YComb News for example) that the hiring process is at least partially Shuttleworth's idea, for example; I can't corroborate that, but if it's true, well, he's the founder. It'll have been like that all along.
Show threadTariqMay 27

@owen @mhoye

yeah - I am surprised tho because canonical ws supposed to be all about the ubuntu philosophy ....

Show threadOwenMay 27

@rzeta0 @mhoye In latter years I've become _very_ skeptical of South African white businesspeople who espouse beliefs from Black communities, to put it mildly.

I mean, not just South African, but definitely specifically including South African.

Show threadTariqMay 27

@owen @mhoye

understandable

Show threadOwOdayMay 27
@mhoye 100%
Show threadvisikdeMay 28
@mhoye
Is Canonical as run by MS[mark shuttleworth] is a combination of the Catholic law & Microsoft?