abadideaJun 2
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

Show threadxinit ☕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.

Show threadEva WinterschönJun 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.
Show threadxinit ☕Jun 2

@winterschon
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?

@0xabad1dea

Show threadabadideaJun 2
@xinit @winterschon I do get the impression Shuttleworth believes that only people who were already stunningly competent in high school will ever be any good at anything, so he doesn’t look at anything you did after that at all.
Show threadJason Bowen 🇺🇦Jun 2
@0xabad1dea @xinit @winterschon I did quite well in school, but I'm 35 and just don't remember what my GPA was from high school or what my SAT scores were exactly. I've started applying for a couple of jobs that asked similar questions and withdrawn because it's not worth anyone's time for me to try to dig up that info when I have 13 years of work experience with references since graduating university.
Show threadchrisp

@jbowen Is he gonna check it anyway? Will all high schools be able to verify it still? Will I have to sign something that they can give to the school to show I want them to have that information?

I was an unemployable prat at highschool who flunked a lot of classes and would have screwed up your computers, you wouldn't want to hire me at that stage. Once I had some experience with computers from my first computing job I was then awesome. I've had 3 jobs since then, why don't we focus on those?

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Show threadJim SalterJun 2

@chrisp @jbowen I very nearly didn't even *graduate* high school, largely due to a very traumatic home life. But I'd like to believe what I've done in the nearly four decades since then is quite a bit more relevant to anyone thinking of employing me in 2025.

As a side note, it is **startling** how much less of this you get when offering business to business consulting as someone who owns their own business... Even if it's a solo business, and you charge 3x what an employee would cost.