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I have to say that over my 20 years of experience in engineering, I have never seen a worse candidate experience than Canonical. After spending probably 20-30 h
by genmud 4y ago
I have to say that over my 20 years of experience in engineering, I have never seen a worse candidate experience than Canonical. After spending probably 20-30 hours of interviews, tests, prep and jumping through hoops with people, getting a generic rejection notice with less details than most automated filters wasn't just a punch to the gut, it was actually incredibly insulting.
In fact it was such an insult that it has turned me off ever using any Canonical products or services and I will ensure in the future that none of my organizations use them either.
There is a reason Canonical has so many unfilled, open positions and it isn't because of their meteoric growth.
- gurchik 4y agoYou may also be interested in this thread[1], where the CEO explains his thoughts on the hiring process. To summarize my recollection of the thread, they have a certain culture that their hiring process was designed to capture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426558
- genmud 4y agoThe issue I had wasn’t necessarily even the time for ensuring culture fit, it was the the utter lack of tact and respect for peoples time on the rejection.