Canonical·Software Engineer

Canonical Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

KenyaPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After submitting my application, I had a recruiting review stage where they checked basic qualifications, which took about 1–2 weeks.

Then a recruiter reached out for a 20–30 minute call to talk through my background, interest in the role, and salary expectations.

From there the process turned into a multi-phase assessment pipeline. I went through a written interview with psychometric evaluation, then moved into a technical assessment, and finally had live interviews as the last checkpoint. The sequencing was pretty structured, but it still took a lot of time and effort to complete everything.

I didn’t make it beyond the second phase and was rejected there. Even though the stages were clearer than some other processes I’d

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