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The first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew my application
- charcircuit 5y agoWhy does Canonical think they can do an almost 40 question written assignment asking for detailed answers instead of a 30 minute vibe check phone call? Do people really want to work for them that badly that they need to filter a bunch of people with this?
- webmaven 5y agoIt has been years since I tried applying for a position at Canonical, but even so this bears no resemblance to the process I was subjected to. Even though processes can change, I suspect that this ludicrously detailed "written interview" is the brainchild of the hiring manager in question, that they are relatively inexperienced (as a manager, at least), that they are modeling this "interview" on their own college application process, and that HR had absolutely nothing to do with creating it.
- rurban 5y agoThe explanation is literally in the letter: submit to app.greenhouse.io they outsourced the first screening process to this shithouse, a commercial recruiting software.
- charcircuit 5y agoThat software doesn't make you do this. I applied to someone else using that software and didn't run into anything weird.
- rurban 5y agointeresting. previous Interviews at Canonical were reportedly normal. new hiring manager then
- johnnyanmac 5y agoI've done almost a dozen apps through greenhouse.io. This sure as heck is not a standard template. Or rather, if it is then every company that used it were right to throw all this in the trash and make their own app.
- johnnyanmac 5y agoThat sure does make sense. My first reaction to this was "geez, is this a job interview or a college app?" God, college apps sucked. But at least the process was just the app. This involves 3 more interviews if you jump through the gauntlet.
- Proven 5y ago