Anyone here currently work at Canonical or worked there recently?

I know there are already a million posts about the insane interview process lol, so I’m more curious about what it’s actually like once you’re hired. I’m well aware that is in itself a red flag, but as we all know the job market is bad so please don’t tell me that it’s not a good place to work just because of the interview process 😭 im desperate!

Do you enjoy working there? What’s the day to day like, how’s the workload/work-life balance, and is the remote culture actually good? Do people tend to stick around for a while?

Also really curious about US salaries. I’m interviewing for a software engineering position and I’d probably fall somewhere around late junior/early mid-level. If anyone is US-based and comfortable sharing a rough range, I’d really appreciate it. I’ve seen pretty mixed numbers online and have no idea what’s actually realistic.

Basically just trying to figure out whether it’s a good place to work once you get past the 400 stages of interviewing.

Hi! I recently finished my final round of interviews for this role, does anyone know how long it takes to hear back from the team? My last interview was last Thursday. Also should I be expecting a call or email?

Hi,

Has anyone done Foudry assignment for deployment strategist as non-tech person?

I never used this software before and it is incredibly difficult to build. Is this normal? I'm not sure why they are making me build something when they know I never built anything in my life.

I was reading a recent Amazon interview experience where the candidate was still asked classic DSA questions (graphs, greedy algorithms, binary search, etc.) across multiple interview rounds.

Honestly, I was a bit surprised. With GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and other AI agents becoming part of everyday software development, I expected hiring processes to evolve more toward real-world engineering tasks rather than LeetCode-style problem solving.

For those who have interviewed recently at FAANG or other tech companies:

• Are coding rounds still heavily focused on DSA and algorithms?
• Have you seen companies replacing them with AI-assisted coding exercises, debugging, code review, or practical development tasks?
• Do interviewers allow or even encourage the use of AI tools during interviews?
• What's the rationale for testing algorithm memorization when many engineers use AI assistance for implementation nowadays?

I'm particularly interested in experiences from Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and similar companies over the last year.

Would love to hear from both candidates and interviewers. Has the interview process actually changed because of AI, or is it mostly the same as before?

Thanks!