[sharphall]

What gets me is -- besides this reflecting poorly on Canonical for wasting the candidate's time -- isn't this also a huge waste of time for Canonical and its CEO?

Why go through all that trouble of scheduling a meeting between the candidate and the CEO if they knew they weren't going to accept the candidate based on something they knew near the top of the hiring funnel?

Surely the CEO has better things to do with his time? Or perhaps not?

[loloquwowndueo]

The amount of time and resources wasted into converting Canonical into an HR machine capable of processing 10000 applicants per month is astronomical.

People are spending 30-50% of their time in hiring tasks, reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, while the success rate is close to what you see in spam operations: 1 out of 10000 applicants get an offer. High-paid vicepresidents spend more than half their time pushing resumes and clicking around the recruitment page instead of having meetings with their teams.

This is all as desired by Shuttleworth: he is convinced he has just reinvented or disrupted HR and is entirely devoted to this. It’s not a waste of time for him - it’s what he lives for.