Candidates applying for Security Engineer roles take an average of 46 days to get hired, when considering 12 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 Security Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Personality test: 31%
IQ intelligence test: 27%
Skills test: 19%
Phone interview: 12%
One on one interview: 8%
Other: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical in May 2024
Interview
tl;dr - Spent ~10-12 hrs without getting a chance to speak with a real person. Automated rejection email received.
Absolute clown show of a process. After my resume was shortlisted, I was given a written interview (which goes into detail about questions that I am certain has nothing to do with the job) followed by a psychometric assessment (again, doesn't evaluate any technical knowledge relevant to the job). Spent about 10-12 for both these tasks only to get an automated rejection email. Probably never going to explore an opportunity with the company again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Who are Canonical's competitors and what can we do to gain an edge over them?
8 stages for a non c suite role seemed really outrageous, and I highlighted the company culture negatively from the start and some of the stages seemed irrelevant for the role.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Canonical
Interview
Muy largo y tedioso. Al final te piden algo que pueden ser 3 o 4 horas de tu vida para filtrar pero el feedback que te dan es bastante random. Porque lo revisa otra persona y no la que te hace la entrevista
it was ok, essay, recruiter call, 5 interviews and 2 hacker rank assesments. not biased but felt like interviewer was reading off a word doc 0 emotion. other than that i dont know what the hacker rank was for.. completely unrelated enginering questions than the job description of course.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
heap vs stack and different memory overflow techniques