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:
Skills test: 19%
Personality test: 19%
IQ intelligence test: 17%
One on one interview: 16%
Phone interview: 12%
Other: 7%
Presentation: 3%
Background check: 3%
Group panel interview: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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Applied to a role in the Online Services, Snapstore side of the business. Took them ages to get back to me, which was an inauspicious sign from the beginning. Passed the initial take home task that was assigned to me (what a waste of time). Then had a pretty casual chat with the manager. Honestly the hardest question I got was probably “have you worked remotely” to which my answer was yes due to the pandemic.
Then I got a boring corporate email saying they are not moving forward. Haven’t got a clue what could have gone wrong with that interview. They told (because I had asked during the interview) me they were only hiring 1 person for that role to join a team of 2! The only reason that comes to mind is they wanted to hire their friends. Smells a bit corrupt.
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.
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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)
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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.