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> I got three "strong yes", eight "yes", and a single "no" from Mark Shuttleworth

Mark interviews are always the last in the process but since they’re the only ones that carry an automatic fail despite all other interviewer scores, they should be done first.

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An interview process that allows a single individual to have absolute veto power over multiple prior interview evaluators is, pretty obviously, broken.

Canonical’s interview process is all kinds of broken. This has been discussed widely on the internet and internally but as long as Mark (who is the main driver and firmly believes it’s a revolution in how hiring is done) and his hiring minions continue to justify it and refuse to change it, it will remain so.

Can't really change much if the CEO and founder think it's a good idea.

Nah, it's working as intended. The whole point of a CEO (boss) is to have veto power.

There's some weird twisted kind of logic here: Shuttleworth probably sees it as the other interviewers' job to weed out candidates so that he doesn't have to spend as much of his time interviewing candidates. It's a total waste in terms of man-hours spent interviewing, but it means Shuttleworth himself spends less time interviewing.

Obvious to me this is a classic boss battle.

Obviously Mark just wants someone to challenge him to a good old round of differentiating high school calculus functions or perhaps some 3D star-trek chess, then he knows you're an intelligent gentleman worthy of Canonical.

> since they’re the only ones that carry an automatic fail despite all other interviewer scores, they should be done first.

That would be impossible since there is only one Mark but a multitude of people who can conduct the previous interviews.

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