Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?

Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by klyrs on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:40PM (#37214323)

Canonical. Their desktop experience had already lost its shine (and, effing snaps), but I made the mistake of believing that they might be cool anyway, without doing my research.

Intelligence test? Story about high school? Reflex test? The actual red flag for me was their final admission that they require an unpaid internship in the form of "community participation."

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/tkc348/my_interview_...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by OnionBlender on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:20PM (#37216126)

I had the same experience and lost respect for Canonical. Kind of makes me want to avoid using Ubuntu as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by solarkraft on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @05:34AM (#37220435)

Knowing this stuff makes me feel weird about people who still ended up working there. Idealism? Very good pay?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by brainfog on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @05:29AM (#37233630)

Judging from data on levels.fyi, definitely not the latter.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:42AM (#37221302)

Debian has already largely caught up with Canonical. Their peak desktop experience is imho 16.04. Unless you need to update every half year, Debian is almost same as LTS Ubuntu, but no snaps.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by jsjdjd37 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:12PM (#37244285)

Switched from Ubuntu to Debian 12 last month and couldn't be happier. Barely noticed any downsides.

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