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      Release Engineer Interview

      9 Oct 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical (London, England) in Oct 2020

      Interview

      I applied online and after a week or so I received an email saying that I was selected to advance to the next stage and that the process would start moving much faster from now on. The next stage was a take-home technical test that shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours and it was just to gauge some of my capabilities. I found a bit odd to jump into a coding test before an initial call with someone from HR/Recruitment, but nevertheless, I did the test. Two days after I submitted the test, I received a template email saying that "Competition for jobs at Canonical is always strong and we often have to make difficult selections between exceptional candidates. At this time we have decided not to take your application any further forward.". Zero feedback whatsoever about the test and why I'm not progressing forward. Very unrespectable - if you request someone's time to do a test, you should invest some of your time in giving proper feedback.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Write a CLI program with Python to add a card to a trello.com board. This program should take user input to add a Trello card with labels and a comment to the specified column of board. You may not use an existing Trello SDK, but other third-party library use is allowed.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      This is meant to mimic a github PR code review. You do not need to merge or fix the code, only provide your feedback to the author. We have constructed several patch files for you to review. These are intended to be merged into the Jenkins Job Linter project. You can see the patches in context here.
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      Question 3

      Share with us code or describe a project that you are especially proud of and explain why you are proud of it. If you have participated in free or open source software development previously, please direct us to your contributions.
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