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      Golang Developer Interview

      29 Apr 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical

      Interview

      Pretty arduous, felt like a bit of a waste of time in the Team's call interview process given I was pretty forthcoming about my experiences on my resume. It was listed as an entry level position when I applied but it definitely feels like they're looking for much more than that. The first interview rounds were just technical assessments that could be passed relatively easily. The big written questionnaire takes a while to complete but overall nothing of extreme difficulty. The coding assessment I felt was not that bad if you've practiced your leet code and whatnot. I then made it to the talking stage where they schedule 3 technical interviews for the role. I prepped and felt relatively confident going on but it almost felt like there was a disconnect between the skills I listed on my resume and what they had tested me for vs the actual interviews. Each interview was an hour long and was essentially just the interviewer grilling me for 55 minutes. I felt I did my best given my experience but there are some things that I would not be able to know unless I had another 2-3 years experience under my belt (I have about a year professional experience currently). Thus, these interviews felt like a waste of time given I had pretty clearly written out what I knew and what I've done. I would definitely not recommend interviewing unless a.) you've been contributing to Canonical open-source projects in the past or b.) you have at least 2-3 years of work experience under your belt relevant to system design, golang, and linux administration. I hoped that I could make my case based on how quickly I have been able to pick up new technologies and become a leading developer within my environment, but as I said earlier, the interviews are just you being grilled for almost the whole interview session with very little time to say anything about yourself. Definitely would not call this 'entry-level', seems to be more 'mid-level' expectations.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      System design questions, how you would make services dealing with high transactions of data
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Golang questions, lots of unit testing and Golang test library functionalities
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Linux system questions/Linux admin questions
      1 Answer

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      Golang Developer Interview

      8 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Canonical

      Interview

      It was a very drawn-out process, I had 6 stages during which they will tell you how they want to hire you, and in the end they will start ignoring you and after a week of ignoring you they will say that they did not find a suitable position.
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      Golang Developer Interview

      11 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical in Mar 2026

      Interview

      After having passed my CV, they sent me a list of questions for a written interview, along with a nice mail from a guy who were gonna be my specific contact along the process. I spent 3 days answering all the questions then submitted my file. 15mn later, I received a rejection no-reply email. I reached to my contact to ask how I could be rejected so quickly and why and he answered that it was a mistake. 3 days later, I received the same rejection email again. I asked if it was the real rejection this time and if I could know why but never got any answer

      Golang Software Engineer Interview

      26 Jul 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Spokane, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Canonical (Spokane, WA) in Jul 2025

      Interview

      Odd personal questions that have no bearing on being able to complete the task. Get a real sense they're after the "best of the best sir!" yet the pay scale is not anywhere near that demand. Just off the chain logic.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What makes you the top scoring in your high school mathematics class.
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