Canonical Software Engineer interview experience

I remember meeting a lot of interviewers, but none of them seemed to know where I was in the pipeline, which made the whole thing feel like it wasn’t coordinated.

I did eventually reach a conversation with the CTO, which was the most surprising moment—like I was finally getting to the top of the chain. Still, I was rejected at the very last step. The feedback I got was essentially minimal, and I was left guessing what they were missing; it came up that my open-source contributions might not have been enough for what they wanted.

What ultimately stuck with me was how unclear the rest of the