Canonical has been famous for _decades_ in tech circles for having one of the most bizarre hiring processes in the world. They're honestly an easy punching bag and I don't think there are many left who have looked for a job in the OS/admin/Linux space who haven't run across them and stumbled across all of the horror stories of getting hired and working there.

It's a fascinating problem. It seems there's always an endless stream of new applicants so there's no reason to change it. And there's an entire group of people contributing to ubuntu for free...