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I had a horrible experience interviewing with Canonical. I cleared all the rounds and impressed everyone, and the manager asked me to state what salary I'd like
by stonecharioteer 6y ago
I had a horrible experience interviewing with Canonical. I cleared all the rounds and impressed everyone, and the manager asked me to state what salary I'd like. It was a remote role, and I'm based in India.
The manager called me and he said everyone was super impressed with my performance in the interviews and wanted to know what Salary I was expecting.
My first question to him was do you have regional salaries. He said no. Canonical pays global salaries.
I'm a fairly good SDE2 who's almost at an SDE3 level. I've given talks at PyCon India and the local Python Meetup group, where I also conduct workshops and seminars on topics ranging from security to web application design and python internals.
So I told him that a salary between 100 and 125K USD would be good.
He said 110 would be doable. He said any higher and the management would have issues. I was prepared to hear him negotiate till 75K mind you. I was super elated.
Two days later I get a form rejection letter saying I was passed on. I reached out to the manager and he said I asked for too much for my experience.
I specifically had asked him for his budget and what the role could pay, but he pretended that he could afford whatever I asked for. This leaves me with two thoughts.
1. The manager was unaware of his own budget and didn't know if his company even had regional salaries or not.
2. The company is looking to low ball people from cheaper countries even if they're a great developers.
Tell me again why people should apply to Canonical?
- dang 6y agoThis comment egregiously breaks the rules at the top of the thread. Please don't do that, even if you did unfortunately have a bad experience. Who Is Hiring threads are not the place to litigate that—there's absolutely no way to sort through what happened in a context like this. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641849.
- srean 6y agoI have mixed feelings about this. The value add of HN's "who's hiring" over the run of the mill job posting boards is the extra HN community context it brings. Its indeed true that there is no way to sort though what happened. Banning stories or allowing such stories distorts the truth oneway or the other.
- dang 6y agoI have mixed feelings about it too, for the same reason. But the arguments against it are stronger.
- stonecharioteer 6y agoApologies. I only replied because I applied to Canonical through their Who's Hiring post and didn't want others to follow the same path with these expectations. Their salary negotiation process was horrible to say the least.
- orara 6y agoThanks for sharing this. I'm also based in India and consider Canonical one of my dream places to work at. Hearing this indeed comes as a reality check.