I applied online. I interviewed at Canonical (Narnia, MD) in Mar 2024
Interview
This far it has been great, a little bit tired since they require us to fill a very large stack of questions, The questions gather information of background since high school, university and experience on open source projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What leadership roles did you take on during your education? Did you conceive of, and drive to completion, any initiatives outside of your required classwork?
Extremely terrible at it's worst. Don't even bother to apply there, except you dont mind wasting weeks on very intensive and time consuming tasks before getting disappointed. The first stage is a written interview, with about 30 essay questions to answer. Second stage is also similar - about 15 technical questions with long answers. Third stage has about 3 different interviews with different team members. Fourth stage is with HR. Fifth stage also has about 3 to 4 different interviews with team managers. Don't bother, it's just not worth the stress.
It is astonishing and disappointing that some employers resort to using pseudo-science nonsense as a criterion for hiring. They base their decisions on dubious psychology tests that have no scientific validity or reliability. This is a poor and unfair way of screening potential employees who may have valuable skills and talents to offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you see resulting from the emergence of cutting edge technologies such as Kubernetes on the Information Technology landscape?
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