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by czscout 97 days ago
Yeah, I wasted probably 40 hours of my life on Canonical's interview process and never even got to talk to a person. They wanted to know my high school GPA and ACT score.
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They wanted to know my high school grades and ACT, and they also made me write a nine page essay about skills that have been impactful to me.

Then they made me take some weird IQ test thing, and then they wanted me to take another one. I was genuinely starting to get kind of worried that they were going to make me talk about my astrology sign, so I eventually just emailed them saying that this is all stupid and I don't want to continue.

I've heard enough about Canonical's absurd requirement to write essays that I just ignore their adverts nowadays.

Which is a shame, as a former Debian developer I feel I could work on interesting things with them.

Wow, classic Capricorn, no wonder they turned you down. /s