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> I got three "strong yes", eight "yes", and a single "no" from Mark Shuttleworth Mark interviews are always the last in the process but since they’re the only

> I got three "strong yes", eight "yes", and a single "no" from Mark Shuttleworth Mark interviews are always the last in the process but since they’re the only ones that carry an automatic fail despite all other interviewer scores, they should be done first.

kiitos 1y ago
An interview process that allows a single individual to have absolute veto power over multiple prior interview evaluators is, pretty obviously, broken.
- loloquwowndueo 1y ago
  Canonical’s interview process is all kinds of broken. This has been discussed widely on the internet and internally but as long as Mark (who is the main driver and firmly believes it’s a revolution in how hiring is done) and his hiring minions continue to justify it and refuse to change it, it will remain so.
  - frosting1337 1y ago
    Can't really change much if the CEO and founder think it's a good idea.
- ragall 1y ago
  Nah, it's working as intended. The whole point of a CEO (boss) is to have veto power.
mort96 1y ago
There's some weird twisted kind of logic here: Shuttleworth probably sees it as the other interviewers' job to weed out candidates so that he doesn't have to spend as much of his time interviewing candidates. It's a total waste in terms of man-hours spent interviewing, but it means Shuttleworth himself spends less time interviewing.
- m463 1y ago
  Obvious to me this is a classic boss battle.
  - ok_dad 1y ago
    Obviously Mark just wants someone to challenge him to a good old round of differentiating high school calculus functions or perhaps some 3D star-trek chess, then he knows you're an intelligent gentleman worthy of Canonical.
selcuka 1y ago
> since they’re the only ones that carry an automatic fail despite all other interviewer scores, they should be done first. That would be impossible since there is only one Mark but a multitude of people who can conduct the previous interviews.

kiitos 1y ago

An interview process that allows a single individual to have absolute veto power over multiple prior interview evaluators is, pretty obviously, broken.

loloquwowndueo 1y ago
Canonical’s interview process is all kinds of broken. This has been discussed widely on the internet and internally but as long as Mark (who is the main driver and firmly believes it’s a revolution in how hiring is done) and his hiring minions continue to justify it and refuse to change it, it will remain so.
- frosting1337 1y ago
  Can't really change much if the CEO and founder think it's a good idea.
ragall 1y ago
Nah, it's working as intended. The whole point of a CEO (boss) is to have veto power.

mort96 1y ago

There's some weird twisted kind of logic here: Shuttleworth probably sees it as the other interviewers' job to weed out candidates so that he doesn't have to spend as much of his time interviewing candidates. It's a total waste in terms of man-hours spent interviewing, but it means Shuttleworth himself spends less time interviewing.

m463 1y ago
Obvious to me this is a classic boss battle.
- ok_dad 1y ago
  Obviously Mark just wants someone to challenge him to a good old round of differentiating high school calculus functions or perhaps some 3D star-trek chess, then he knows you're an intelligent gentleman worthy of Canonical.

selcuka 1y ago

> since they’re the only ones that carry an automatic fail despite all other interviewer scores, they should be done first. That would be impossible since there is only one Mark but a multitude of people who can conduct the previous interviews.