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Ask HN: Canonical removed all job vacancies

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In this URL, https://www.canonical.com/careers/all-vacancies, approximately month ago, there were 27 Job Vacancies. I was interviewing for a position but decided it was not for me later, and I was told to check here and see wheter there will be any other position would be for me, but now there is none. Is this related to CEO change?

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The canonical careers page used to have a section about requirements for your application. I said that you should point out one exceptional thing you did in your life. If you had not one single exceptional thing to highlight, it went on, you should instead apply "here". The last word was a link to the application page of the US government.

This is from more than 10 years ago and all from my memory, so I'm not 100% sure about every detail

EDIT: It probably was the Ubuntu employment page. Unfortunately 2005 is completely missing at archive.org. Digging though old versions I found these other gems:

- HR would like us to say 5+ years Ubuntu experience. "Lots" will do.

- Speak many languages. French and Spanish are better choices than Klingon or Esperanto.

- You need to like people. They need to generally like you.

EDIT 2:

Found it! It was on markshuttleworth.com and the word here in the last sentence was a link to www.whitehouse.gov

I'm looking for talented people to help turn ideas into reality. I like to work with people who fit this description:

Brilliant. Tell me about things you've done in which you have truly excelled. I don't mind if you did brilliantly at school and then crashed at university because you were more interested in something else, just tell me about the something else! It could be an open source piece of software you wrote and which has been widely used. It could be a small business you've setup and run. It could be that you were consistently in the top 10% of your class at school or university. It could be that you are a natural leader or organiser. If you haven't done brilliantly at something in life, try applying here, you'll fit in just fine.

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20041024004348/http://www.m...

They had a bunch of layoffs recently, from what I hear. There might be a hiring freeze.

They are restructuring and had to lay off many people. There is now focus to cloud and iot. They will probably put job listings once they complete the restructuring.

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