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+%title Canonical written interview
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+## Education
+
+At high school, how did you fare in mathematics and physical sciences? Which were your strongest subjects in the hard sciences, and how did you rank in your class?
+:   I did quite well at math and science in high school. In terms of harder sciences, though, I excelled primarily at biology. Having vastly enjoyed my initial biology class at the high school level. I quickly made my way up to the AP/IB level biology where I was keenly interested in biochemistry.
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+    Beyond that, however, I also excelled computer science, having performed at the top of my class in Pascal (oh, my aching bones), C++, and the HTML/JavaScript class thta was offered there.
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+What sort of high school student were you? Outside of required work, what were your interests and hobbies?
+:   I was very much a nerd. I dug quickly into computers and choir as my primary interests. For computers, I quickly wound up joining the web team, which helped maintain the school's webpage, and server admin for the two Linux (Debian, if I remember correctly) servers that served to manage personal sites for the web team and the members of the HTML/JavaScript class. I also enjoyed Latin enough to make my own imperial toga so that I could recite my Cicero in style.
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+At high school, what leadership roles did you take on?
+:   As mentioned, I was a member of the web team, a group of students supervised by the physic teacher who maintained both internal and external aspects of the school's site. The site itself was built up from a combination of Perl and Server-Side Includes.
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+At high school and university, describe your achievements that were considered exceptional by colleagues and staff.
+
+In languages and the arts, what were your strongest subjects at high school and how did you rank among your peers?
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+Which degree and university did you choose, and why?
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+How did you rank competitively in university? Which were your strongest courses, and which did you enjoy the most?
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+Outside of degree requirements, what were your interests and where did you spend most of your time? What did you enjoy most about your time at university?
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+How did you rank competitively in university? Which were your strongest courses, and which did you enjoy the most?
+
+## Career development
+
+How would you describe your level of experience as a professional software engineer?
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+What kinds of software projects have you worked on or with before?
+
+Describe your level of skill with your best programming language and how you've achieved that.
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+What are your strengths as a software engineer?
+
+## Experience
+
+Describe the skills and strength you will bring to a distributed team - how do you organise yourself, what structure do you like to create around your work?
+
+What experience do you have with community management/developer advocacy?
+
+What experience do you have with Linux-based software development?
+
+Please describe your operations or administrative experience.
+
+Please describe your experience managing events and social media.
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+Please describe your experience writing blog posts or articles.
+
+Please describe your experience using or contributing to open source.
+
+## Context
+
+What do you think are the key ingredients of a successful open source project?
+
+Why do you most want to work for Canonical?
+
+Which other companies are building the sort of products you would like to work on?
+
+What do you think Canonical needs to improve in its engineering and products?
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+What do you think is the biggest opportunity for Canonical in this arena?
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+Who do you think are key competitors to Canonical? How do you think Canonical should plan to win that race?