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Education In high school, how did you fare in mathematics and physical sciences? Which were your strongest subjects in the hard sciences, and how did you rank in your class? In high school, what leadership roles did you take on? What courses and university did you choose, and why? How did you rank competitively in university? Which were your strongest courses, and which did you enjoy the most? In high school and at university, describe any achievements considered exceptional by colleagues and staff. Career development How would you describe your experience as a professional software engineer? Describe your skill in your preferred development language, and how you attained it. What are your strengths as a software engineer? What is your proudest success as an engineer? Describe your customer-facing experience. Experience Describe your level of experience as a user & developer on Linux. Describe your experience with Linux kernel development and debugging. Describe your experience of low-level boot processes and BIOS / firmware. How do you address software performance in your software engineering practice? How do you prefer to drive documentation for your products? How do you think about quality in your software products? Describe a case where it was very difficult to test code you were writing, but you found a reliable way to do it. If available, provide links to your public source code repositories What would you like to achieve in your career and skills development? Context Are you involved in open source software? Describe any significant contributions to open source (with links where possible) What do you think are the key ingredients of a successful open source project? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? Which other companies are building the sort of products you would like to work on? What do you think Canonical needs to improve in its engineering and products? Who do you think are key competitors to Canonical? How do you think Canonical should plan to win that race?
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Senior Ubuntu Embedded IoT System Engineer

Interviewed at Canonical

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Jan 10, 2024

Education In high school, how did you fare in mathematics and physical sciences? Which were your strongest subjects in the hard sciences, and how did you rank in your class? In high school, what leadership roles did you take on? What courses and university did you choose, and why? How did you rank competitively in university? Which were your strongest courses, and which did you enjoy the most? In high school and at university, describe any achievements considered exceptional by colleagues and staff. Career development How would you describe your experience as a professional software engineer? Describe your skill in your preferred development language, and how you attained it. What are your strengths as a software engineer? What is your proudest success as an engineer? Describe your customer-facing experience. Experience Describe your level of experience as a user & developer on Linux. Describe your experience with Linux kernel development and debugging. Describe your experience of low-level boot processes and BIOS / firmware. How do you address software performance in your software engineering practice? How do you prefer to drive documentation for your products? How do you think about quality in your software products? Describe a case where it was very difficult to test code you were writing, but you found a reliable way to do it. If available, provide links to your public source code repositories What would you like to achieve in your career and skills development? Context Are you involved in open source software? Describe any significant contributions to open source (with links where possible) What do you think are the key ingredients of a successful open source project? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? Which other companies are building the sort of products you would like to work on? What do you think Canonical needs to improve in its engineering and products? Who do you think are key competitors to Canonical? How do you think Canonical should plan to win that race?

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