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      Engineering Manager Interview

      Mar 28, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Canonical in Mar 2022

      Interview

      I was rejected in 40 min after applying to the job. "We are writing to let you know that we will not progress your application further." They didn't even read my CV.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Management Experience, Open source and Linux expericence
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      Other Engineering Manager Interview Reviews for Canonical

      Engineering Manager Interview

      Jul 19, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Canonical

      Interview

      It requested to answer 40+ questions about different topics. Some of them, asked me for suggestions concerning strategies to improve the business. Maybe because I asked some questions about topics prefer to hide they cut me. There is no feedback. It seems to be no the best environment to work.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How Canonical could improve the different products.
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      Engineering Manager Interview

      Jun 19, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Canonical

      Interview

      Submitted resume online. Waited for one week. Then hiring lead connected me, and ask me to finished a written interview, which contains 50 questions. It took me a whole day to answer all them them.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Are you a high quality coder?
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      1

      Engineering Manager Interview

      Mar 13, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Canonical

      Interview

      tldr; After hours of interviews and exercises they ghost and give no feedback. I managed to complete Canonical's "early stage" interviews - 4 one hour interviews and 4 exercises (1 written, 2 psychometric, and a coding exercise). Although I had great conversations and loved meeting everyone (best part), Canonical ghosted for 2 weeks despite reaching out to my hiring manager for any updates. When they did respond, it was the most generic email: "We are writing to let you know that we have reviewed your application. We regret to inform you that we shall not be progressing your application further for this particular role". Given the progress through the process I would've expected some correspondence or feedback, but they just send an inpersonal email. If they provided ANY kind of feedback that would definitely get rid of the question marks. Instead, Canonical conveys that they do not care about you or the time you spent in their overly long process, even if you do make it to the further rounds.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Normal interview questions around Linux skills, software architecture, and management skill.
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      Canonical interviews FAQs

      • Engineering Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Canonical with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 28% positive. To compare, the company-average is 14.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Engineering Manager roles take an average of 54 days to get hired, when considering 18 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 Engineering Manager according to 18 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  18%

        IQ intelligence test:  18%

        Phone interview:  16%

        Personality test:  14%

        Skills test:  13%

        Presentation:  11%

        Other:  5%

        Background check:  4%

        Group panel interview:  2%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

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        2. Engineering Manager(20) ;
        3. Sales Development Representative (SDR)(14) ;
        4. Senior Software Engineer(12) ;
        5. Sales(11) ;
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        12. Project Manager(5) ;
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        14. Cloud Operations Engineer(4) ;
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