Canonical·Software Engineer

Canonical Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

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Negative

NetherlandsPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a long series of assessments where the first “real” human interaction didn’t feel close for a while.

They went deep into personal history, including childhood and teenage details, and the video-call side felt oddly disengaged—some interviewers didn’t even turn their cameras on. I also remember additional testing layered in, like an IQ-like and personality-style evaluation, and it all added up to a procedure that felt incredibly long with far too much unpaid homework.

I also ran into the written component that focused on school-era information and performance. Even when the interviewers themselves were kind, the overall experience was hard to take because it took more than a month to hear

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