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      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 25, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Canonical in Mar 2024

      Interview

      The interview process for Canonical is ridiculous and insulting to potential employees. The process consists of a ton of stages only for them to decline you an offer in the end with minimal feedback after 10+ hours of commitment. The stages of the process are as follows: (1) Initial Application Submission (2) Written Response Questions - they will send you a TON of random written responds questions that took about 2 weeks of work on my end (3) Technical Assessment - an extremely challenging 2ish hours coding assessment (4) Psychometric Assessment - about an hour long logic test (5) "Early Stage Interviews" - in my case 3 technical interviews that were over an hour long and finally (6) Late stage interviews with company executives and offer. In the technical interviews, they will ask you tons and tons of super specific and unnecessary questions that you have and will never need to know for a job or even any other typical technical interview. I made it through to stage 5 of the process and at this point they had still not even clarified with me the terms of a potential offer (compensation, title, ETC) after like I said putting in over 10 hours of work. I, like you might have, read poor reviews on GD but thought I would be different as I have a great resume and experience and Canonical is a reputable company in my field, but alas I was not. I wasted a ton of time on this and am extremely disappointed and disheartened by this ridiculous and insulting interview process. I truly don't know who they even choose to hire with standards like this.

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      What is the difference between apache and Gpl2
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