The first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew my application

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9 points·chris_wot··7 comments

Why does Canonical think they can do an almost 40 question written assignment asking for detailed answers instead of a 30 minute vibe check phone call?

Do people really want to work for them that badly that they need to filter a bunch of people with this?

It has been years since I tried applying for a position at Canonical, but even so this bears no resemblance to the process I was subjected to.

Even though processes can change, I suspect that this ludicrously detailed "written interview" is the brainchild of the hiring manager in question, that they are relatively inexperienced (as a manager, at least), that they are modeling this "interview" on their own college application process, and that HR had absolutely nothing to do with creating it.

That sure does make sense. My first reaction to this was "geez, is this a job interview or a college app?"

God, college apps sucked. But at least the process was just the app. This involves 3 more interviews if you jump through the gauntlet.

The explanation is literally in the letter:

submit to app.greenhouse.io

they outsourced the first screening process to this shithouse, a commercial recruiting software.

I've done almost a dozen apps through greenhouse.io. This sure as heck is not a standard template. Or rather, if it is then every company that used it were right to throw all this in the trash and make their own app.

That software doesn't make you do this. I applied to someone else using that software and didn't run into anything weird.

interesting. previous Interviews at Canonical were reportedly normal. new hiring manager then

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