abadideaJun 2, 2025
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 threadI AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥Jun 2, 2025

@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 threadEvaJun 2, 2025
@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 threadI AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥Jun 2, 2025

@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, 2025
@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 threadArtemisJun 2, 2025

@0xabad1dea @xinit @winterschon
I have the feeling that after I say "I was homeschooled" I'd be sent packing.

Basically it's the kind of thing where if your life was non-stereotypical in any way, then fuck you.

Show thread@saraJun 5, 2025

@artemis you might make it through the gauntlet - I did, but this is what Shuttleworth said about it https://hachyderm.io/@sara/112117156883684126

@0xabad1dea @xinit @winterschon

Sara Safavi (@[email protected])

10. THE CALL Mark begins our call by saying: "I've read your essay responses. You say you didn't go to high school. Generally I only want people who are in the top 5%. You obviously can't prove that applies to you. So tell me why I should believe you were the equivalent to the top 5% of your peers at 16."

Hachyderm.io
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@sara
That CEO interview, though. "Can you prove X. Convince me yo really did Y."

Insufferable.

This all makes the spontaneous TED Talk on "any subject at all that I'm an expert in" look a bit more reasonable.

@artemis @0xabad1dea @winterschon

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Show threadI AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥Jun 5, 2025
@sara
I wonder on what kind of people actually make it through that call.
@artemis @0xabad1dea @winterschon