I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Feb 2016
Interview
I applied online and got a call from the recruiter to chat about my current position, my future goals and to chat about Canva and the role. You'll be given a homework assignment to complete and submit in your own time. If your code looks good (i.e. well architected, high performance, clean code, etc), you'll get through to the in-person interview. This involves being interviewed by 2 engineers, who asked me to extend my code in various ways in front of them (live coding). The next stage was another round where I was interviewed by another 2 engineers. They asked me to write some tests and explain the reasons behind the structure of me code, and how I could improve its performance.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why did you architect your code this way? How could you improve performance? How could you make it more testable? How could you test the rendering code in a way that would make you confident in its correctness?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Dec 2025
Interview
1. Recruiter call, 2. AI-assisted interview, 3. Final around with 3 interviews: pair-style interview, software architecture, culture-fit interview
Everyone at Canva was so welcoming, warm, and helpful throughout the process. Communications were not as quick due to the holidays, but HR kept me updated throughout my whole journey till the offer phase.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Canva (Melbourne) in Sep 2025
Interview
First interview is a 30 min phone screening, second interview is an AI-Assisted interview with a broad question and you need to handle scoping and development.
Final interview is a 3 part interview in a day, 1hr javascript only programming, 1hr system design and 1hr behavioural inteview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build Canva (but up to developer to define scope, e.g. drawing on a canvas with text creation).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Canva (Auckland, Auckland) in Apr 2025
Interview
1) 1 hour call with People Researcher : 1st round screening is just a chat
2) 1 hour DSA recorded interview with an Engineer from Canva, it's a pair programming type of exercise where you are asked to solve a problem and talk through your solution
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