Canonical·Software Engineer

Canonical Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with a huge questionnaire that went far beyond normal “background” info and leaned heavily on high-school performance details, like grades in English and math and leadership-style questions.

I ended up spending pages on it, feeling like the scope didn’t match the seniority of the role. After that, I took an aptitude/behavioral GIA-style test with quick reaction and mental-calculation tasks, which was over fast.

Then I hit a skills assessment delivered through their DevSkiller platform. It was frustrating because the in-browser coding environment repeatedly had issues, and it directly interfered with being able to spend time debugging the way I normally would. The actual coding problems were described as standard medium-level tasks, but fighting platform bugs stole the time I

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