Canonical Software Engineer interview experience

It was packed with a lot of technical-skill and career-path questions—around forty of them—so it became its own mini project before I even spoke to anyone. Once that was in, I moved into a psychometric assessment, which was the next step after the written submission.

That was followed by an early stage interview, and the later part of the process leaned heavily into role fundamentals. I remember covering operating systems and networking concepts, and talking through my past work—especially anything open-source or collaborative. The difficulty felt average overall, but the format asked for a