It has a lot of stages: written interview, Thomas test, behavioral and technical one. All interviews are independent and them do not depend on each other. Written interview contains a lot of questions about school and university
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Question 1
What ai tools you use? Why canonical? What you used from canonical? What open source tools you know
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical (Madrid) in Jan 2025
Interview
Me descartaron por estar dentro de los valores normales/esperables en un test psicológico que básicamente lo hace más rápido el que se entretenga en practicarlo 20 veces… te preguntan sobre tu etapa universitaria y la verdad que creo que debería haber un filtro de entrada más orientado a skills que a un test de inteligencia que encima no está validado por la APA
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Question 1
Estudios, marketing, proyectos, etapa incluso en el instituto y selectividad
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Canonical (Warsaw, Masovia) in Aug 2025
Interview
the worst i had, so many stages, long wait times, getting ghosted on last one and getting a rejection e-mail, over 25 questions in form to be filled, interviews wwere similar about nothing
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Canonical (Cork) in Jun 2025
Interview
Very long interview process with many rounds. Each round has varying difficultly but due to the amount ranging from Technical assesment, Written assesment and project presentation. It was overall a difficult interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe what an Operating System does to a Primary School Student, in a way they will understand.
Candidates applying for Junior Data Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 Junior Data Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 20%
Personality test: 20%
Presentation: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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