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A few years back, I actually made it all the way through to Mark, who interviewed me while having dinner (on his end). My essay focused on Ubuntu on ARM and ho
by rcarmo 3y ago
A few years back, I actually made it all the way through to Mark, who interviewed me while having dinner (on his end).
My essay focused on Ubuntu on ARM and how critical it would be for hyperscalers, which at the time wasn't really a thing at all (that should date me).
I ended up declining their offer mostly because nowhere during any step of the process but the very end they pointed out they could only contract, not take me on as a full-time employee.
I don't regret giving it a go, but it was one of the weirdest hiring processes I've ever gone through (including FAANG, MBB and think tanks).
- FlyingSnake 3y agoPardon my ignorance, but what’s MBB?
- mertd 3y agoApparently it's the big three of management consulting.
- rendall 3y agoI suppose it should not surprise me as much as it does that there are people out there who are in the union set of people who have interviewed at FAANG (i.e. all of them or enough not to refer to them individually) and also interviewed at MBB (ditto). No Jane Street, though? No PEGS? No GSIBs?
- alephnerd 3y agoFor those of us who started in the last 10 years, Jane Street falls within that union set as well. MBBs, FAANG, and top HFTs tend to recruit at the same handful of top public and private schools. The GSIBs (by which I assume you mean large banks) pay shit outside of their IB practices. That said, if you were good enough to get a FAANG APM interview and an MBB Analyst interview at a program like Cal or Mich or Harvard you'd probably get an IB Associate interview at UBS or JPMC as well.
- bigbillheck 3y ago> union ... and Unions are (by and large) 'inclusive or's, for an 'and' you're thinking of intersections.
- rendall 3y agoYou are correct!
- Delk 3y agoPeople might prefer not to single out the company even if they only interviewed at one. Just a guess, though.
- rcarmo 3y agoMore than one in each set. But no, singling out isn’t a thing I do, unless there are memorable bits in the process—-and you always learn something by it.
- rcarmo 3y agoBorrowing a quote from a recent movie, I have a very particular set of skills :)
- hashtag-til 3y agoMcKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and Bain& Company.
- thiht 3y ago> interviewed me while having dinner (on his end) Wtf? Couldn’t he have done that at a more convenient time?
- re-thc 3y ago[flagged]
- echelon 3y agoI'd rather him have the respect to not be doing anything else at all while conducting an interview.
- ghaff 3y agoDoesn't seem that odd? I imagine he has a pretty busy schedule.
- _zoltan_ 3y agoThis would be a deal breaker for me. 0 respect.
- ghaff 3y agoBecause Shuttleworth in particular or because someone at a company took someone out to a meal? The latter seems perfectly normal and I've been in that situation a number of times. Obviously you ought to have the opportunity to eat but having especially a more casual conversation over a meal just doesn't seem odd to me.
- rbanffy 3y agoShuttleworth is a very hands-on manager, which is both a blessing, if you like his style, or a curse, if you don't.
- pharrington 3y ago
- falloutx 3y agoThis explains a lot about Canonical. They are delusional if they think bright people will go through that much to work a job which doesn't even pay that much. I have interviewed some really bright people and usually if you don't respond to them within 2 weeks, they have already found a job somewhere else.