Post AujkjmTYlXGvdti5Qm by Stepland@mamot.fr
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(DIR) Post #AuiPpfCwPOjwdvwOBM by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
2025-06-02T09:16:26Z
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General PSA: don’t apply for a job at Canonical. Do NOT apply for a job at Canonical. Treat the blatantly artificially enormous number of job openings they post as the mirages of trickster fae. They are unhinged. Mark Shuttleworth is unhinged. They will drag you through the mud, disrespect you and your time, and definitely not give you a job. This article I saw today is like the thirteenth of its kind that I personally have seen https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html
(DIR) Post #AuiPpgfgxzKfBOOrdQ by XaetaCore@mastodon.xaetacore.net
2025-06-02T09:17:09Z
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@0xabad1dea The fact that they try to force Snapd and Netplan down people's throats should have been a good deterrent
(DIR) Post #AuiSZJmkaYznQpaVGK by evan@fedi.evrys.me
2025-06-02T09:40:05Z
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@0xabad1dea wow, I expect institutions to over-index on tertiary qualifications but caring about *high school* is some next level nonsense :ww: (especially for open source work where much of the time you could just go look at someone's OSS commits as strong direct evidence!)
(DIR) Post #AuiSZKlivrliTw7CIi by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
2025-06-02T09:41:54Z
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@evan from having read a few of these stories, I get the impression that Shuttleworth believes that only people who were already highly accomplished at 15 will ever accomplish anything, hence his laser focus on what you were like at 15 rather than what you’re like now
(DIR) Post #AuiSZLx6X2Sy9WRng8 by evan@fedi.evrys.me
2025-06-02T09:43:46Z
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@0xabad1dea and it's such a bad way of measuring even that!I dropped out of high school at 14, by 15 I was busy working out a physics simulation for a space combat MUD I wrote in C ...
(DIR) Post #AuiWEli3yGPLlzqsnw by gnoll110@ruby.social
2025-06-02T10:26:24Z
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@0xabad1dea Any replacement distro recommendations?
(DIR) Post #AuiWEn2f1AThuAUqY4 by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-06-02T10:28:52.722690Z
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@gnoll110 @0xabad1dea https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
(DIR) Post #AuiY2QL3nmX7vRKlbU by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-06-02T10:49:04.680Z
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange As a general rule thumb I simply ghost any company that wants to do more than two interviews with me before handing me a contract.I ain't wasting my time on your pseudoscientific personality tests or whatever. Do you want to hire a programmer or do you not want to hire a programmer? If you can't answer this simple question in less than 2 hours of my job you are not the type of company I want to fucking work at anyway.
(DIR) Post #AuiYKC5DXgeKvQOfuC by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-06-02T10:49:49.270Z
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange As a general rule thumb I simply ghost any company that wants to do more than two interviews with me before handing me a contract.I ain't wasting my time on your pseudoscientific personality tests or whatever. Do you want to hire a programmer or do you not want to hire a programmer? If you can't answer this simple question in less than 2 hours of my time you are not the type of company I want to fucking work for anyway.
(DIR) Post #Auia2RFwag6sgB4kd6 by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-06-02T11:11:28.983Z
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchangeOverall, would-you-hire-wise I got three "strong yes", eight "yes", and a single "no" from Mark ShuttleworthWow I wasn't expecting that Shuttlworth himself is the sole reason why all of this fucking sucks lmao. Great article.
(DIR) Post #AuiliEkiZHfLYfbTJA by HeNeArXn@chaos.social
2025-06-02T13:18:31Z
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@SuperDicq @0xabad1dea he even went on reddit debating people about it a while back: https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/15kj845/canonical_the_recruitment_process_really_is_that/CEO arguing with people on social media is a good sign of having lost the plot.
(DIR) Post #AuiliFmAlMQKjTI9DM by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-06-02T13:22:15.924Z
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@HeNeArXn@chaos.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Him talking about "open source" makes me throw up. I know he doesn't actually care about software freedom.
(DIR) Post #Auj63qL4166HIJBSym by bara@clubcyberia.co
2025-06-02T17:10:20.528462Z
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@0xabad1dea i just got hired by them seems like a you problem
(DIR) Post #AujBDLfXOtdeqA71ZQ by starlily@mastodon.social
2025-06-02T18:08:00Z
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@xaetacore @0xabad1dea Upstart, anyone?
(DIR) Post #Aujkj9yjtg2WFIzw7E by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T09:32:45Z
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@0xabad1dea welp, my intuition was right again
(DIR) Post #AujkjHaDcjB9pZaT0S by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T09:35:12Z
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@0xabad1dea A while ago I applied for a position, the interview steps were so fucking bonkers before I would even get to talk to any living person that I dropped out
(DIR) Post #AujkjPAdPjT3MXg9Eu by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T09:35:29Z
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@0xabad1dea first they have a "quick" pre-screen where you fill a short form and they email you back if they liked what they saw THEN you have the REAL screening
(DIR) Post #AujkjWHGzRw9P9q33g by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T09:38:25Z
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@0xabad1dea 37 (THIRTY-SEVEN) questions that you have to answer IN DETAIL in a word document, each question going SO FAR BEYOND anything they'd actually need to assess your fitness for the position
(DIR) Post #AujkjejDZR2lc8yTj6 by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T09:41:03Z
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@0xabad1dea it took me ... upwards of 15 hours to answer everything. next step ? an IQ test 💀💀💀I dropped out
(DIR) Post #AujkjmTYlXGvdti5Qm by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T09:46:40Z
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@0xabad1dea first I think that's straight up illegal in France (possibly the whole EU), second I'm not even remotely entertaining the idea this is normal, third why the F would I want to work with people who think it is ??I'm now going by the general mantra of "whatever happens during the interview is a good preview of the actual job" and oh BOY I did NOT like whatever happened in this one
(DIR) Post #AujkjuawZxvqp7E63E by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T14:38:48Z
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@0xabad1dea I am SO GLAD I dropped out "early" because WHAT DO YOU MEAN there's a personality test after the IQ test, then SEVERAL technical tests, then UPWARDS OF 10 ROUNDS of interviews ???? I absolutely despise this trend of endless hiring processes
(DIR) Post #Aujkk2aWrOLzc95sW0 by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T15:04:20Z
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@0xabad1dea what are they even testing FOR, this process is giving equals amounts of :- we will only hire someone who's autistic + whose specific interest is the exact job description- we hate people with the 'tism so fucking much we'll invent the Torment Nexus of hiring processes
(DIR) Post #AujkkAzdbvBxgKu2lM by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T15:05:34Z
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@0xabad1dea "someone from the team I applied for told me that the role has been empty for more than 18 months, and offered a polite smile when asked why she thought that was the case."We LOVE a good lack of self-awareness
(DIR) Post #AujkkIalMI31FVKI6K by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T15:06:10Z
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@0xabad1dea they are SO SCARED to hire anyone they would rather leave the role empty for 18 months
(DIR) Post #AujkqxV2B5rXrKp30i by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T15:22:42Z
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@robinsyl @0xabad1dea their website is all like "NO DON'T SAY IT'S AN IQ TEST IT'S DEFINITELY NOT AN IQ TEST, IT JUST MEASURES YOUR ABSTRACT REASONING ABILITY, IF IT'S NOT FROM THE IQ REGION OF FRANCE IT'S JUST SPARKLING PHRENOLOGY"
(DIR) Post #Aujkr5W2NFQ0ilLxgW by Stepland@mamot.fr
2025-06-02T15:23:52Z
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@robinsyl @0xabad1dea the fact they feel the need to defend themselves from the IQ tests allegations in the first place is ... surely something interesting
(DIR) Post #Aujkt6eX7LUGpJI0mW by pgcd@mastodon.online
2025-06-02T12:39:37Z
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@0xabad1dea "but when I was in high-school (around 15-20 years ago), my goals and motivation were really different than my current ones, as they were mainly, ranked in order of interest and importance: getting laid."I feel seen.
(DIR) Post #AujkuJzizy0CUkmUj2 by ryan@m29.us
2025-06-02T14:55:16Z
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@0xabad1dea Just for context, Shuttleworth's phrenology-based hiring practices only started around 2018. I worked for Canonical from 2012 to 2020, and my hiring was pretty standard streamlined: screening, manager interview, two tech interviews, offer within a week.HOWEVER, I never went to college (I moved to San Francisco right after high school for the dot-com years), and the hiring insanity applied to internal movement as well. Part of the reason I left was I was told, almost verbatim, "You are no longer qualified for the job you've been doing for 8 years, nor any other job. You won't be dismissed, but you have no prospects."Edit: There were many, many other top-down problems at Canonical, but I was just focusing on the hiring issue above.
(DIR) Post #AujkwLTqRfMtgMpoWm by SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange
2025-06-02T21:58:31Z
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@0xabad1dea Do not use Ubuntu. You can not trust.
(DIR) Post #Aukm6dBrkURKcJqyyu by XaetaCore@mastodon.xaetacore.net
2025-06-03T12:36:08Z
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@beaumains @0xabad1dea What i mind is that they are forcing you to use it, its their own software and it comes default on their systems, they also removed the /etc/interfaces file.So all admins and users had to switch to a whole new stack out of nowhere because they couln'd get this tech to stick on other distros.Flatpak imho is a way better alternative and using netplan instead of ifconfig/systemd-networkd/interfaces_file is just wierd.Its forcing their own tech on its users because they don't want it to be a wasted investment.And netplan has caused tons of issues on plenty of different production envs i have worked on for different companies too.
(DIR) Post #AukmRAyRqshBBdNFwW by besserwisser@shitposter.world
2025-06-03T12:39:53.146176Z
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@halva @0xabad1dea It seems to be largely a personal problem of Mark Shuttleworth and if a person has that many flaws, "unable/unwilling to change" is usually one of them.