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If you would like to be part of the future of open-source software, then please take a look at the positions we have available. In the SaaS Engineering organization alone (which I lead), we have six positions:

Engineering Manager - Platform Services, Launchpad - https://canonical.com/careers/2290636

Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Systems Management - https://canonical.com/careers/4283003

Senior Software Engineer - App Stores Backend - https://canonical.com/careers/3159992

Software Engineer - Launchpad - https://canonical.com/careers/3142044

Software Engineer - Systems Management - https://canonical.com/careers/4647417

Engineering Director, App Stores - https://canonical.com/careers/4581001

Please consider coming to be part of our team and share these postings with others you think might be interested!

Thanks.



I have to say that over my 20 years of experience in engineering, I have never seen a worse candidate experience than Canonical. After spending probably 20-30 hours of interviews, tests, prep and jumping through hoops with people, getting a generic rejection notice with less details than most automated filters wasn't just a punch to the gut, it was actually incredibly insulting.

In fact it was such an insult that it has turned me off ever using any Canonical products or services and I will ensure in the future that none of my organizations use them either.

There is a reason Canonical has so many unfilled, open positions and it isn't because of their meteoric growth.


You may also be interested in this thread[1], where the CEO explains his thoughts on the hiring process. To summarize my recollection of the thread, they have a certain culture that their hiring process was designed to capture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426558


The issue I had wasn’t necessarily even the time for ensuring culture fit, it was the the utter lack of tact and respect for peoples time on the rejection.




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