Mastodawn

General PSA: don’t apply for a job at Canonical. Do NOT apply for a job at Canonical. Treat the blatantly artificially enormous number of job openings they post as the mirages of trickster fae. They are unhinged. Mark Shuttleworth is unhinged. They will drag you through the mud, disrespect you and your time, and definitely not give you a job. This article I saw today is like the thirteenth of its kind that I personally have seen https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html

My experience with Canonical's interview process

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

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xinit ☕Jun 2

@0xabad1dea All those questions in the written part about school for a senior role.

I STUDIED COBOL IN SCHOOL.

How's that matter in a senior role with Ubuntu? Obsessed with how senior staff did 10+ years back. I barely remember or care what I did in another position 10 years ago, and I learned more there than I did in school.

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Eva Winterschön Jun 2

@xinit @0xabad1dea agreed. I don't even bother putting the details of my job history prior to around fifteen years ago. Most of the companies either dissolved or went through a merger/acquisition, so whatever Perl or Cisco stuff I was doing back in the mid-2000s is really quite irrelevant to anything other than occasionally funny stories from a very different era. I list the roles and the years as bullet-points, but that's all.

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xinit ☕Jun 2

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The questions about ranking and performance in HIGH SCHOOL are also concerning. Is this some sort of "peaked in high school" thing for the CEO?

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Chuckles ❤️🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦❤️Jun 2

@xinit @winterschon @0xabad1dea it's because Canonical really only wants to employ people who are 23-29 years old, it's not mysterious at all.

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xinit ☕Jun 2

@celeduc Then maybe something more like "Peaked in high school and still too young to come to terms with it"

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Chuckles ❤️🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦❤️

@xinit @winterschon @0xabad1dea either that or Shuttleworth is obsessed with exacting symbolic revenge against the people who peaked in high school, and seeks to surround himself with a gang of outsider nerds who will, under his guidance, ascend to new heights of vengeance, performing a live-action Revenge of the Nerds V in a battle against (checks notes) Bill Gates?