I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Canonical (London, England) in Jul 2023
Interview
It is an extremely long interview process, longer than any other company I know about. I would say to skip it as you think it is going well, but they take a long time to find other better candidates while keeping you on hold. There is no feedback along the way as to how the previous interviews went and you just keep on getting emails to submit your availability for the next interview.
The interview went as follows:
1. Submitting an Application along with a CV.
2. Completing a written test.
3. Completing a psychometric test.
4. Completing a Technical challenge using their Vanilla Framework.
5. An hour-long interview with someone who asks about your previous experience and things you've previously worked with mostly touching front-end topics.
6. A second hour-long interview kind of the same as the first one talks about testing/integration/DevOps you've done before.
7. A third hour-long interview which is also the same but is focused on the back end. After completing this you'd have completed the first "early" stage of the interview process. Crazy, I know. You then go into the "late" stage of the process which were as below:
8. Completing a "Talent" psychometric assessment.
9. An hour-long call with a Talent Scientist who asks about your previous experience, and the old-school "What would you do if your teammate doesn't like your suggestion?" type questions. This was for another hour.
10. After this, you'd have another interview who, if you get the same as mine, was the most discourteous person ever. My interviewer yawned and looked like he just didn't want to be there.
After all this stupidly-long interview process, I got a basic rejection with no feedback whatsoever about the process as to why I was rejected. If you ask for my advice, just skip this company, you'd think that your interview is going well, but they'd still reject you and I don't think it's worth the effort and time you put into this application.
The recruitment process is excessively long and completely lacks human contact. Moving through numerous anonymous stages without a proper interview makes it impossible to evaluate the opportunity effectively. The company needs to introduce real interaction much earlier in their hiring pipeline.
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Question 1
A high volume of basic school and college-level academic questions during the initial stage.
Written interview including high school performance. After that, I took an online assessment (coding) and a personality test. The recruiter sent me an email about arranging the first person-to-person interview. But after an hour, I received a rejection email.
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Question 1
High school performance, working style, project experience
As we all know, the interview process can feel long from the moment you get that first email. I completed the text interview, the coding tests, and the problem-solving assessments 🤔. Interesting or not — you decide. The interviews with the team were pleasant; I guess it depends, but mine were 3/3 positive experiences. I didn’t get an offer, but I’m thinking of applying again in six months..
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Question 1
To be honest, I thought it would be more like an architectural interview where I’d be drawing app structures on a whiteboard. But instead, it was more along the lines of: Tell me about your projects, your achievements, your goals. What would you do in this situation? Why do you use this instead of that? What would you do differently now?