The longest interview process I have ever gone through. It took them 4 personal interviews, a take home interview, a weird personality test, and a take home project to tell me no.
I'm not mad I didn't get the job, happens all the time no big deal, but I'm pretty mad I spent nearly a month putting everything together and getting pretty optimistic about my chances (what company wastes this much time on someone they're not going to hire??) only to be shot down right at the end.
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The take home project was to write a script that grabs a file from a linux repo and calculate some stats about it, but they also said to code like its going into prod. I added lots of unit tests, error handling, custom and detailed exceptions, broke it into classes and structured it like a real python project should look.
Never got any feedback on any of it. Was that where I messed up? Was it somewhere else? Who knows.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Canonical in Jan 2026
Interview
I understand they are looking for a very specific type of profile. It's just not for me and after a long form with 30+ questions, some of then about my teenage years hobbies or my grades in school, and a intelligence tests consisting on sesame street knowledge like "Peter is taller than Jenny. Who is shorter?" i just withdraw, if that is the respect they have for candidate time i am not a good fit for their culture.
Long process, took a lot of time to complete so-called "written interview", talking about your academic performance during high school and college, which is hated by most people.
Interviewers are kind, however, it sucks when the interview process takes you 40+ days to get a rejection email.
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Question 1
Find the position of matched bytes in a large data memory
It was lengthy. There is the well-known written interview, followed by a basic programming test. Lots and lots of Google Meet interviews. Many of the interviewers asked the same questions. A panel interview would have been a lot better.
