[r4indeer]

I'm sorry, a 10-stage application with at least 5 different interviews? How many weeks is this going to take? This feels like FAANG-level recruitment.

Am I so out of touch to expect an application, one interview and maybe a technical assessment for most IT/CompSci jobs? Wouldn't the probationary period be way more effective to see if you fit into the team/company/culture/etc.?

[fmajid]

I interviewed with both Canonical and Meta 6 months ago. The Canonical process is far more intense, and yes, it's a big time investment "on spec" for a candidate (I'd estimate it at 7 man-days, 4 for the written essay alone), along with 10 interviews.

They do read the essay carefully, which is what the OP's article is all about.

I'd rather a company take time to do a thorough assessment of a candidate rather than cavalierly hire one with a high likelihood of dismissal during the trial period, as they may have left an existing job to join.

[SamuelAdams]

At the same time, they are probably losing a lot of talented engineers because other companies have much less effort in their hiring process.

Is the compensation at Canical that much better than other companies that makes the extra effort worth it?

[michaelt]

> Am I so out of touch to expect an application, one interview and maybe a technical assessment for most IT/CompSci jobs?

My information is a decade+ out of date, but Google would perform a recruiter/CV screen, then a technical phone screen, then five technical interviews on one day. And this was all before your CV got in front of the person you'd be reporting to, and before they could say whether they were offering interesting work.

Many other tech companies, having seen Google's success, have decided to ape their interview process.

[xyzzy3000]

Bet they don't offer Google levels of prestige or salary though.

It comes across like a sort of cargo cult recruitment.

[rewmie]

> I'm sorry, a 10-stage application with at least 5 different interviews? How many weeks is this going to take? This feels like FAANG-level recruitment.

At least one of the FANGs only has 3 or 4 steps, one being a HR contact and another a phone screening.

A 10-step process goes way beyond that.

[JohnFen]

> Am I so out of touch to expect an application, one interview and maybe a technical assessment for most IT/CompSci jobs?

No, you're not out of touch. Most companies are more like this (although my experience is that most companies will do two interviews -- one that is more social and meant to measure "fit" and one more technical.)

[RHSeeger]

If you're going to be leaving another job to work at a company, you want to find out if it's a cultural fit _before_ that happens, not during a probationary fit.

[toyg]

But that doesn't happen here - it's the hiring company evaluating that, you don't get a choice. Unless you mean that subjecting you to this horrendous process signals which kind of company they are, so that you can bail in time.