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Describe your experience in technology subscription businesses Describe your involvement and experience in fund-raising and/or IPO processes What do you consider your most relevant experience for this role? Describe your experience in a start-up or high growth business, the challenges faced and examples of how you resolved these challenges? Insights What do you consider to be the most critical metrics in a business such as ours, and how have you helped a business to manage those metrics in your previous roles? How do you see the role of the Finance function in driving the business, preparing us for an IPO, and ensuring we are equipped to operate as a public company? What are the most challenging aspects of preparing for an IPO? How would you measure your own success in this role? Context Outline your thoughts on the mission of Canonical. What is it about the company's purpose and goals which is most appealing to you? What do you see as risky or unappealing? Who are Canonical's key competitors, and how should Canonical set about winning? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? What would you most want to change about Canonical? What gets you most excited about this role? We consider academic results in high school and university for all roles, regardless of seniority or department. To enjoy a long and varied career at Canonical, one would need to tackle problems that cannot be defined today! From engineering to marketing to operations and sales, we intensely value colleagues who are able to puzzle through difficult problems and find the optimal path forward. How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in maths and hard sciences? Which was your strongest? How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in languages and the arts? Which was your strongest? Please state your high school graduation results or university entrance results, along with the system used, and how to understand those. For example, in the US, you might give your SAT or ACT scores. In Germany, you might give your scores 1-5. What sort of high school student were you? Outside of class, what were your interests and hobbies? What would your high school peers remember you for, if we asked them? Which university and degree did you choose? What other universities did you consider, and why did you select that one? At university, did you do particularly well at any area of your degree? Overall, what was your degree result and how did that reflect on your ability? In high school and university, what did you achieve that was exceptional? What leadership roles did you take on during your education?
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Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Interviewed at Canonical

3.2
Sep 16, 2023

Describe your experience in technology subscription businesses Describe your involvement and experience in fund-raising and/or IPO processes What do you consider your most relevant experience for this role? Describe your experience in a start-up or high growth business, the challenges faced and examples of how you resolved these challenges? Insights What do you consider to be the most critical metrics in a business such as ours, and how have you helped a business to manage those metrics in your previous roles? How do you see the role of the Finance function in driving the business, preparing us for an IPO, and ensuring we are equipped to operate as a public company? What are the most challenging aspects of preparing for an IPO? How would you measure your own success in this role? Context Outline your thoughts on the mission of Canonical. What is it about the company's purpose and goals which is most appealing to you? What do you see as risky or unappealing? Who are Canonical's key competitors, and how should Canonical set about winning? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? What would you most want to change about Canonical? What gets you most excited about this role? We consider academic results in high school and university for all roles, regardless of seniority or department. To enjoy a long and varied career at Canonical, one would need to tackle problems that cannot be defined today! From engineering to marketing to operations and sales, we intensely value colleagues who are able to puzzle through difficult problems and find the optimal path forward. How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in maths and hard sciences? Which was your strongest? How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in languages and the arts? Which was your strongest? Please state your high school graduation results or university entrance results, along with the system used, and how to understand those. For example, in the US, you might give your SAT or ACT scores. In Germany, you might give your scores 1-5. What sort of high school student were you? Outside of class, what were your interests and hobbies? What would your high school peers remember you for, if we asked them? Which university and degree did you choose? What other universities did you consider, and why did you select that one? At university, did you do particularly well at any area of your degree? Overall, what was your degree result and how did that reflect on your ability? In high school and university, what did you achieve that was exceptional? What leadership roles did you take on during your education?

Lots of "give me an example of a situation where you..." questions, mostly not really having to do with the role but more just feeling you out overall. I guess this makes sense as this was the HR recruiter and not the actual hiring manager.
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Mgr Facility Planning and Design

Interviewed at Vancity

3.3
Oct 3, 2023

Lots of "give me an example of a situation where you..." questions, mostly not really having to do with the role but more just feeling you out overall. I guess this makes sense as this was the HR recruiter and not the actual hiring manager.

Questions were asked but I was barely given a chance to reply and cut short while the interviewer did most of the talking. I decided to withdraw my application right afterwards. I had applied through a friend who works there. Some of the comments made by the interviewer was as follows: "(As soon as I was seated) Why did you come? I just wanted a phone call (I was never given that option)." "I'm not saying this because you're a woman but a woman I recently interviewed said, 'I can't do this and that' because I'm a woman / mom'. So what? I'm a dad too." "There's all this talk about women's rights & empowerment in Korea. Who do they think they are? A queen?" "(After explaining why my time at Company A was cut short) Why did you bother to work when you were pregnant. Do you have to work?" "Nothing on your resume matched anything I'm looking for but just because it was a referral I invited you." "My former experience as an engineer/researcher is valued everywhere but your kind of experience is not wanted anywhere." "Who's taking care of the child? (After I said I hired a nanny) Do you want that? Have your kid raised by someone else?"
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R&D Planning/Operations Manager

Interviewed at Samsung Research America

3.4
Apr 1, 2019

Questions were asked but I was barely given a chance to reply and cut short while the interviewer did most of the talking. I decided to withdraw my application right afterwards. I had applied through a friend who works there. Some of the comments made by the interviewer was as follows: "(As soon as I was seated) Why did you come? I just wanted a phone call (I was never given that option)." "I'm not saying this because you're a woman but a woman I recently interviewed said, 'I can't do this and that' because I'm a woman / mom'. So what? I'm a dad too." "There's all this talk about women's rights & empowerment in Korea. Who do they think they are? A queen?" "(After explaining why my time at Company A was cut short) Why did you bother to work when you were pregnant. Do you have to work?" "Nothing on your resume matched anything I'm looking for but just because it was a referral I invited you." "My former experience as an engineer/researcher is valued everywhere but your kind of experience is not wanted anywhere." "Who's taking care of the child? (After I said I hired a nanny) Do you want that? Have your kid raised by someone else?"

Focus on 1) IndAS 115& 116 2) Financial Statements 3) Ways of budgeting 4) how to prepare monthly and yearly budget 5) accrual and provision difference 6) journal entry (Depreciation, bad debts) 7) unbilled revenue 8) Recent ammendment in budget
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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Interviewed at HCLTech

3.5
Feb 26, 2021

Focus on 1) IndAS 115& 116 2) Financial Statements 3) Ways of budgeting 4) how to prepare monthly and yearly budget 5) accrual and provision difference 6) journal entry (Depreciation, bad debts) 7) unbilled revenue 8) Recent ammendment in budget

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