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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 11, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Canonical in Dec 2023

      Interview

      Applicant BEWARE! Advice for anyone applying would be only apply if you already have a job + willing to wait a long time for a turn around + ready to be rejected for no reason + mentally ill. Its understandable if you don't have a job and are willing to go through this process since you gotta do what you gotta do. But if you already have a job, why would you put yourself through this process? They are absolutely not worth it. Firstly this company does not have enough clout to be putting this many rounds. They are completely delusional to think that they are A: They're a good enough company to require this kind of filtering and B: Think their compensation matches the amount of pig scum required to get to an offer. Now they probably might be reading this thinking I'm just another bitter candidate who is leaving a review after being shafted a 7 rounder and left with a no reason rejection. I'm sure they sit in a circle discussing how their process isn't a complete disgrace and how they are actually finding the top talent in the work pool. I would implore them to rethink that. Whoever thought of this process should do a shadow application for one of the roles and actually go through the process themselves. Either way its a free world and you can choose to apply or not. Just heed the warnings in the posts below. If you think you have a chance you probably don't. And if you know you're top talent and have high confidence that you will make it through all rounds then why would you choose to work here anyway LOL. Save your time and effort for FANG or something. Complete dog compensation and the management clearly is running some sort of experiment to see how many people will fall for the trap. Typical things that the rest of the posts say. Essay asking about your past. IQ test. Take home test. 3 initial technicals rounds, Linux skills, take home test review, and your language of choice deep dive (Golang for my case). Was rejected at this stage. Be aware if you make it past here you have another 3/4 round to go. Around 10 rounds in total. I'm 99% that this is a process that started of as a comedy sketch from one of the employees but the incompetent management took it seriously and decided to actually implement it. Or the company has turned into money laundering operation and they want to know who they can control by conducting a 10 rounder. In either case a complete disgrace. I would like to add that the 3 individuals conducting the technical rounds where great. They understand and relate to the pound to flesh it took to get to speaking to one of them so I guess they feel sorry for you by that point.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Have you ever been a dancing Monkey? Or have you ever been pimped out? If so are you willing to for a 10 rounder? Take home test to implement audit logger service in your chosen lang.
      1 Answer
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