Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Canonical with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 16% positive. To compare, the company-average is 14.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 53 days to get hired, when considering 155 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Canonical overall takes an average of 51 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Canonical as a Software Engineer according to 155 Glassdoor interviews include:
Personality test: 19%
Skills test: 19%
IQ intelligence test: 17%
One on one interview: 16%
Phone interview: 12%
Other: 7%
Background check: 3%
Presentation: 3%
Group panel interview: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Canonical in Dec 2011
Interview
The interviews consisted in 4 - 1 hour technical phone discussions with communication with HR in between. The interview process honestly was very disorganized with long periods of silence (3+ weeks) and an obvious lack of communication between each person / HR.
The questions were not that technical, mostly to judge your level of maturity in development (some technical, also about QA, etc.), and overall interest / passion about software. Beware, not technical does not mean not "tricky", they probably expect a specific profile and an involved person that knows what he is talking about technically. They tried to probe this w/ some key questions.
Besides that very good communication w/ tech managers (beside one which was so-so) and I enjoyed the talks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Judge level of maturity of the candidate related to software testing / QA, etc.
Brutally long and difficult. They take their time so only apply if you have time and are dedicated to open source tech.
That being said they are very communicative so if you have any questions its not such a black box.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They'll ask for specific niche aspects of coding languages to check if you actually use them day to day.
It's an extremely long process that includes standardized tests, take home assignments, and several rounds of interviews. It was at least 5 rounds long and you interview across different teams.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Canonical (London, England)
Interview
They have a really long, tiring interview process. The first round was a written interview where I had to answer like 15 questions. Then a coding interview with 1 hour time that I could do anytime for 2 weeks. Then I had to take a personality test and they totally ghosted me.