This was the first step in the interview process at Canonical

Re:This was the first step in the interview process at Canon... by toyg on Sunday March 20, 2022 @05:11PM (#30746668)

I reckon these questions started as "in college", then someone in meeting #8533 rightly said "but what about people who did not go to college?" and so it was turned into high-school.

I suspect what this tells us about Canonical is that they have too many HR folks running riot.

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Re:This was the first step in the interview process at Canon... by heartofadog on Sunday March 20, 2022 @05:17PM (#30746726)

Or too many folks still hung up about how they ranked and what they were able to "accomplish" in those years.

A competent HR department exists, in fact, precisely for the purpose of preventing the adoption of inane practices like these.

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Re:This was the first step in the interview process at Canon... by tptacek on Sunday March 20, 2022 @10:19PM (#30749332)

I strongly suspect HR has nothing to do with any of this, because some of these questions come close to the line of inappropriate and problematic.

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