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I interviewed at Canonical, doing all of the written stuff, and got an offer. But in the end I turned them down because their compensation wasn't competitive.

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Same here. And they’re a BYOD shop too, which I found strange.

Whatever other faults the Canonical process has, BYOD sort of makes sense to me from a dogfooding perspective with a company carrying a major desktop Linux offering.

Would look for a budget or have it reflected in their offer analysis though.

They should give people devices just for wasting enough of their time with a lengthy interview process.

Like, sorry you didn't make it past the final stage, but here's a nice Framework laptop with Ubuntu.

Considering the underpowered equipment that often gets issued as standard hardware by IT departments, I wouldn't be that unhappy about BYOD.

They do pay for a laptop upgrade every three (iirc) years however.

BYOD ?

They don't provide a laptop, AND your work computer must run Ubuntu.

Is it also a fully-remote company or do they have offices? My experience with Canonical has been pretty good from a customer perspective but I did have one sales guy call me with the most ridiculous levels of background noise.

And you’ll probably need a NUC out of pocket.

They’re saving money on not buying equipment for their employees.

I'm surprised Amazon didn't come up with that idea a long time ago.

I can only imagine that the amount of money you have to spend on IT for a myriad of different devices + the security implications + the hurdle to get non-technical people to manage their own devices is just not worth it. Let's say amazon has 100k white-collar workers. If they all the 1k USD devices on avg that's 100mio dollars. That's < 0.1% of their !quarterly! revenue.

Bring Your Own Device i.e. laptop / dev machine

It is unusual although I use my own devices (running whatever I want to) even though I could get a standard-issue laptop.

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