I don't understand this at all. The only type of person who would have the time to go through all this would be someone with considerable amounts of fuck you money.
But such people just say fuck you and move on when the process becomes tedious. Who are they trying to hire here?
I've been to a few companies which had way too more applicants than they knew what to do with, but most of the time it was because the majority were under qualified spam applicants, who assumed that eventually someone will give them the time of day.
The vast majority of Linux kernel engineers I know wouldn’t have the time, endurance, or care to complete this bullshit.
I’ve known people who’ve maintained Arch packages, kept Brew up to date, and maintained kernels for Android devices. Some of whom have attempted to get hired by Canonical. Some of whom had Canonical engineers begging to hire them.
Their process can’t hire Americans, is highly biased towards a British attitude towards long, laborious interview processes, and was described by one of my colleagues in diversity and inclusion as “the most trans and neurodivergent hostile environment I’ve ever seen in an interview loop, incapable of hiring the demographic that will make the most impact in their product.”
But such people just say fuck you and move on when the process becomes tedious. Who are they trying to hire here?
I've been to a few companies which had way too more applicants than they knew what to do with, but most of the time it was because the majority were under qualified spam applicants, who assumed that eventually someone will give them the time of day.