Canonical·Software Engineer

Canonical Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jan 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the earlier written and testing steps, my technical stage looked very different from the typical live coding loop.

I ended up having three topic interviews focused on areas like Linux, Python, and software design and architecture, and none of those rounds involved writing code during the interview.

Instead, the conversations were more about knowledge and how I thought—mostly questions about concepts and philosophies, plus discussion about projects. It felt more like an interview centered on explanation and systems understanding than a coding contest.

I didn’t end up getting the role, but I didn’t mind the format as much as the overall structure of the process. What made it tough wasn’t the absence of

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