Canonical·Software Engineer

Canonical Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first big shock was how little human contact there was.

I had to start with a long form and multiple cognitive assessments, then complete coding challenges for web-related work like HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and React, and during those early stages nobody really spoke with me.

After that, the process continued with an email that gave me a large set of detailed questions to answer and send back on a tight window. I spent a couple of hours working through multi-sentence responses, and only after that did I get moved to a separate skills test through a third party. The result came back very quickly after the test, and it felt like I was rejected

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