I also recently came across a job listing from Canonical, and the application form was enormous, with lots of mandatory fields. I also questioned whether they ever hire anyone at all with this process. You would really have to want a job at Canonical to fill in that form.

I guess no one who works there came across this (viral) post about how ridiculous their hiring process was. Maybe they're too busy reading applicant responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059857