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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 26, 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Okay, OK
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Canonical (Okay, OK) in May 2021

      Interview

      The process is very long and drawn out. There are a total of 7 steps. As you may see from the other interviews posted on here, there's been no positive SWE related interviews posted. They ask you to first write answers to all the interview questions and then take an IQ test. So they don't even have the courtesy to ask these simple questions over a Zoom call. Overall very mediocre experience with this company. If you value your time in anyway don't bother with this one.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How do you use K8S? Hardest project in Python? Hardest project ever done?
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