Hehehe never apply to Canonical. I sat 6 interviews, 2 psychometric evals including an IQ-adjacent evaluation, submitted a take home assessment and was asked about my high school math grades just to be offered a job with a more advanced title paying 20k less than what I was currently making. I only sat it through because I wanted to post the offer on glassdoor/levels so others didn’t have to waste their time either. (And because I wanted to see if I could pass their famously grueling application process)
So yes I’ve seen companies (big ones) do this sort of thing.
Whaaat…no matter the sale, I’d just go and leave with those abysmal requests.
And I complained back in the day that an application had to include so much personal data already 😁
Yes, I went through this too, dumbest interview process ever but it had the positive result to make me look into how dumb a company canonical is and start using debian rather than Ubuntu. I call it a hard fought win
Canonical’s hiring process is wild. The number of stages is a deal breaker in itself, but the bizarre questions and the tests you mentioned don’t do them any favors either.
I lost interest in the first stage with them asking for an essay about things like what kind of student I was in high school. The full email was massive.
I think theirs is the only company I’ve seen ask for a GPA on the initial application. I’ve been out of school so long I don’t even remember, nor did I particularly care since the knowledge was the actual point.
Hehehe never apply to Canonical. I sat 6 interviews, 2 psychometric evals including an IQ-adjacent evaluation, submitted a take home assessment and was asked about my high school math grades just to be offered a job with a more advanced title paying 20k less than what I was currently making. I only sat it through because I wanted to post the offer on glassdoor/levels so others didn’t have to waste their time either. (And because I wanted to see if I could pass their famously grueling application process)
So yes I’ve seen companies (big ones) do this sort of thing.
Whaaat…no matter the sale, I’d just go and leave with those abysmal requests. And I complained back in the day that an application had to include so much personal data already 😁
Yes, I went through this too, dumbest interview process ever but it had the positive result to make me look into how dumb a company canonical is and start using debian rather than Ubuntu. I call it a hard fought win
Canonical’s hiring process is wild. The number of stages is a deal breaker in itself, but the bizarre questions and the tests you mentioned don’t do them any favors either.
I lost interest in the first stage with them asking for an essay about things like what kind of student I was in high school. The full email was massive.
I think theirs is the only company I’ve seen ask for a GPA on the initial application. I’ve been out of school so long I don’t even remember, nor did I particularly care since the knowledge was the actual point.