Comment Re:Job Application (Score 1) 38
Then I guess I'm glad I refused the Thomas test and walked away.
I have a theory: if a company is arbitrarily rigid about something that's completely in their control, they'll be arbitrarily rigid about many things. That rigidity makes for an unpleasant workplace. So, during the application process it's worth identifying one thing about which they express rigidity and challenging them to modify it.
Before the pandemic, my test was usually to ask for a private office. Four walls and a door. They don't have to say yes, but the ones who offer a hell no have failed my test. I didn't even have to get that far with Canonical. They handed me a rigidity test on a silver platter.
This method has failed me only once in my career. In that case, the company simply lied to me: they made a promise that they never fulfilled.