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      Partner Marketing Manager Interview

      Mar 20, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical in Jan 2025

      Interview

      Email from recruiter with interest. To advance you have to write answers to 16 detailed questions in 14 days. I will post the list of questions below. This took me hours and ended up being close to 10 pages. Some of the questions were tantamount to free strategy advice. Example: Who are competitors to Canonical, and what does Canonical need to change to be a more effective competitor? I see many companies do this now and it's not ethical. I answered it with enough specifics to be plausible but sufficiently generic to not give them free advice. Other questions were questionable value. Example: What was your rank in high school? Be sure to explain the grading system. Red flags started to go off. Next round was some IQ and puzzle tests where you had to rotate images (letters, shapes) to match. They called it a psychometric assessment administered by a 3rd party GIA. I will say the rejection letter was kind and I was dealing with the team manager, so that at least is something positive. All in all, this level and type of screening is disproportionately burdensome to the candidate & the cognitive tests are interesting but a poor determiner for work performance. Said another way, Canonical interview process is not respectful of potential candidates time. I do not know, but it seems a red flag to how they treat their people. I recommend you look into this if you are interviewing with this company.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Please respond to at least 2 of the marketing experience questions most related to the role you're applying for: How would you decide on the most appropriate marketing mix? How has your communication practice changed to leverage social media influencers What do you think relationships between sales and marketing should be like? What's the marketing automation project you're most proud of? What's your preferred attribution method for LinkedIn paid ads? How do you measure the ROI of marketing activities? Answer all of the following questions Describe your personal interest in technology and in the enterprise market Outline your thoughts on marketing open source software in the enterprise? Who are competitors to Canonical, and what does Canonical need to change to be a more effective competitor? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? Which Canonical products and services would you most like to work on? Whether you have had a long career or are new to the workplace, we ask all candidates to give us a sense of their academic credentials and strengths for fairness reasons. How did you rank in your final year of high school in mathematics? Were you a top student? On what basis would you say that? How did you rank in your final year of high school, in your home language? Were you a top student? On what basis would you say that? Please state your high school graduation results or university entrance results, and explain the grading system used. For example, in the US, you might give your SAT or ACT scores. In Germany, you might give your scores out of a grading system of 1-5, with 1 being the best. Can you make a case that you are in the top 5% in your academic year, or top 1%, or even higher? If so please outline that case. Make reference where possible to standardised testing results at regional or national level, or university entrance results. Please explain any specific grading system used. What sort of high school student were you? Outside of class, what were your interests and hobbies? What would your high school peers remember you for? Which university and degree did you choose? What other universities did you consider, and why did you select that one? Overall, what was your degree result and how did that reflect on your ability? Please help us understand the grading system for your results. During all of your education years, from high school to university, can you describe any achievements that were truly exceptional? What leadership roles did you take on during your education? Did you conceive of, and drive to completion, any initiatives outside of your required classwork?
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      Other Partner Marketing Manager Interview Reviews for Canonical

      Partner Marketing Manager Interview

      Jul 27, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical (New York, NY) in May 2023

      Interview

      This was one of the strangest selection processes I've participated in my career. In the first contact conducted by the marketing area, I was asked to answer 18 extensive questions with irrelevant queries for the position such as "What sort of high school student were you? Outside of class, what were your interests and hobbies? What would your high school peers remember you for if we asked them?"... I ended up responding to this questionnaire that took more than two days of dedication, and then I was sent a Psychometric assessment with 5 tests. All this effort put into the process without even having a conversation with a recruiter beforehand. In the end, I don't recommend the company, and I wouldn't apply again.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you decide on the most appropriate marketing mix? How has your communication practice changed to leverage social media influencers? What do you think relationships between sales and marketing should be like? What's the marketing automation project you're most proud of? What's your preferred attribution method for LinkedIn paid ads? How do you measure the ROI of marketing activities? Describe your personal interest in technology and in the enterprise market. Outline your thoughts on marketing open-source software in the enterprise? Who are competitors to Canonical, and what does Canonical need to change to be a more effective competitor? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? Which Canonical products and services would you most like to work on? In high school, how did you rank competitively in maths and hard sciences? Which was your strongest? In high school, how did you rank competitively in languages and the arts? Which was your strongest? What sort of high school student were you? Outside of class, what were your interests and hobbies? What would your high school peers remember you for, if we asked them? Which university and degree did you choose? What others did you consider, and why did you select that one? At university, did you do particularly well in any area of your degree? Overall, what was your degree result, and how did that reflect on your ability? In high school and university, what did you achieve that was exceptional? What leadership roles did you take on during your education?
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