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I've been using Debian stable exclusively for the past three years on servers since Canonical doubled-down on "snaps" despite all of their customers telling them on no uncertain terms that "snaps" are horrible.

Also Canonical was named and shamed by people trying to get jobs as the poster child of everything wrong with tech recruiting in [current year].

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Yes I discovered snaps in 24.04 when I tried to install Firefox.

Eventually installed from the PPA but it was an unexpected PITA.

Uh what's wrong with canonical recruitment?

They had me do an automated IQ test, specified I had to do it in my native language, and it turned out it had been machine translated with some tools that was decades old, so I didn't understand anything at all.

I am sure they've also blacklisted me because I get autorejected since then.

I'm also a Debian Developer so I don't have any relevant experience that could be useful in working at Canonical.

Where do you see anything wrong with their process?

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