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      Field Engineer Interview

      May 29, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Canonical

      Interview

      Very negative experience. I spend a whole weekend writing a 40 page interview answering their questions about high school etc. Then they invited me to an aptitude test that I had to do (as they told me) in my native language. The questions in the test were poorly translated to my language probably from google translate a decade ago (with missing articles and poor grammar) and most of them did not make any sense. I got ghosted after that. Throughout their process I did not had the opportunity to speak or contact any real person. Everything was just an automated human-less process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in languages and the arts?
      Answer question

      Other Field Engineer Interview Reviews for Canonical

      Field Engineer Interview

      Apr 2, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Canonical

      Interview

      Had to do the essay and aptitude test. Got rejected after. Was not even considered for the position. Not a good experience. the manager just clicked me away on the service they have without even reviewing my application. Feels like a waste of time, considering how long the process is

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Essay questions about my engineering experience education customer facing experience and why I chose to apply for Corona
      Answer question

      Field Engineer Interview

      Nov 27, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Japan
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Canonical (Japan) in Apr 2025

      Interview

      It was rather long and I had to take part in two interviews, one asking about different systems and another about Linux based operations. They gave me a set of questions to solve.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What kind of distributed databases are you familiar with?
      Answer question

      Canonical interviews FAQs

      • Field Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Canonical with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 18% positive. To compare, the company-average is 14.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Field Engineer roles take an average of 51 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Canonical overall takes an average of 51 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Canonical as a Field Engineer according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:

        IQ intelligence test:  21%

        Skills test:  18%

        Personality test:  18%

        One on one interview:  15%

        Group panel interview:  9%

        Other:  6%

        Background check:  6%

        Phone interview:  3%

        Presentation:  3%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(96) ;
        2. Engineering Manager(20) ;
        3. Sales Development Representative (SDR)(14) ;
        4. Senior Software Engineer(12) ;
        5. Sales(11) ;
        6. Director(8) ;
        7. Manager(8) ;
        8. Product Manager(8) ;
        9. Technical Support Engineer(8) ;
        10. Software Developer(6) ;
        11. Software Engineer I(6) ;
        12. Project Manager(5) ;
        13. Sales Executive(5) ;
        14. Cloud Operations Engineer(4) ;
        15. Engineer(4) .


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