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   Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:08:43 JST Shauna GM

   Hey Mark Shuttleworth's bonkers interview process for jobs at Canonical made Ask a Manager!

   https://www.askamanager.org/2024/11/job-application-is-fixated-on-high-school-academic-performance.html

   (The letter doesn't name the company, but a commenter recognized it - as did I, while reading the letter - and the letter writer confirms in the comments.)

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     Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:14:32 JST Asta [AMP]

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     @shauna@social.coop were you the individual who posted a thread about these hiring questions earlier this year? In frustration with Canonical, I wrote a thread detailing the current set of questions they asked and about my experience interviewing with them last year (terrible, obviously) and someone linked me to a thread where someone had a similar experience… I don’t remember who posted it. You’re obviously (and unfortunately) familiar with Canonical’s bullshit questions as well, so… sorry if they put you through that too : (
     
     I wish I could block Canonical on job postings, because they flood job boards for every region with these postings.

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     Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:26:02 JST Shauna GM

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     • Asta [AMP]

     @aud I really appreciate you sharing because as an open source professional Canonical is exactly the kind of org I might have naively applied to. Now I know not to bother

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     Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:26:03 JST Asta [AMP]

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     @shauna@social.coop ah! No, no, I’m glad you didn’t have to go through it! I’m also glad others are aware of how ridiculous their hiring pipeline is (and how incredibly biased)! Just like… people should stay away from their postings. They’re not worth the energy to even read.

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     Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:26:05 JST Shauna GM

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     • Asta [AMP]

     @aud

     I have never applied for a job at Canonical and I doubt I ever will. I may have actually learned about their hiring practices from the thread you wrote (or maybe from the one you were linked to - it was definitely a Mastodon thread) and I've since brought it up a few times and have friends confirm how bad it is.

     I'm sorry they put you through that

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:26:52 JST Rich Felker

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     • Asta [AMP]

     @shauna @aud Sounds like Canonical is both an awful employer AND an awful FOSS citizen...

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:32:50 JST Rich Felker

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     • Asta [AMP]

     @shauna @aud I've never used it but my experience trying to support ppl who do has always been "that's a problem you never would have had if you weren't using the enshittified fork of Debian". 🙃

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     Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:32:52 JST Shauna GM

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     @dalias @aud

     I mean, I do in fact use Ubuntu and have for years. So I don't want to say that I've never benefited from their work. But they clearly have some problems.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:38:41 JST Rich Felker

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     • Asta [AMP]

     @shauna @aud Yeah, I really wish there were someone making a "don't have to tinker or think about" setup for Debian without corporate conflicts of interest with the user and without abdication of the core responsibilities of being a distro.

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     Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:38:43 JST Shauna GM

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     @dalias @aud

     It's possible I'd be happier on Debian but Ubuntu's always worked well enough for me, and I always got the vibe that Debian was better for folks who like to configure and tinker with things, whereas I like to think about my operating system as little as humanly possible