> We don’t hire skills. We hire people, with personal qualities. They are a whole package. We ask about academic attainment on the basis that it – all the way back to school days, even for a candidate later in life – is a strong indicator of many personal qualities and abilities, including performance at work.

It's amazing to me that they're still sticking to this narrative. If I'm 40 now, the claim is that how I was like 30 years ago is a strong indicator of what I'm now? Wow. You need to get out more.

I guess Detective Gilbert Ponton will never get hired at Canonical. Because, his ancestors were farmers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBwn7ycR7_Y.

>> We don’t hire skills. We hire people, with personal qualities. They are a whole package. We ask about academic attainment on the basis that it – all the way back to school days, even for a candidate later in life – is a strong indicator of many personal qualities and abilities, including performance at work.

Huh, interesting, considering that they knowingly hired a convicted child rapist.

They famously had a drawn out recruiting process that put a lot of burden on candidates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059857