I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Canva (New York, NY)
Interview
Interview consists of a few stages. Initially a senior recruiter will have a chat with you so as to get to know you. If the recruiter is satisfied with your personality, you will be given a take home challenge. You are allowed to finish this in a few days. Usually this is based on a technology related to their product. The code needs to be production ready and perfect. Once you submit the developed tool / application, the engineering team will review it and get back to you. If they are satisfied, you will have to face another interview with two engineers. This is a technical interview where they will question the approach which you have followed in completing the take home challenge. They will also mention you to extend your code and you will be asked several technical questions as well. The next steps do not have a firm flow. Depending on your performance in the technical interview, you might be asked to solve a challenge with the team, face another technical interview and finally to sit and have a chat with the decision makers.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Canva (Melbourne) in May 2026
Interview
First round: AIP + SDA interview
1 hour AI Programming interview (50 mins Programming + 10min Q&A) + 1 hr System Design (40 mins Whiteboard system design + 5min Q&A)
The interviewer allocated 50 minutes for the AI Programming interview. However, because they frequently interrupted with questions midway through, we ran very tight on time. Fortunately, I managed to complete the system design portion ahead of schedule, which left the final 10 minutes to ask questions about Canva with the interviewer. Afterwards, my original recruiter left the company. Although another recruiter assured me they would provide feedback, they have gone silent since my last email reply.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Jul 2023
Interview
1 recruiter phone screen expectation + fundamental javascript question
2 first-round technical screen focus on live coding
3 final round technical screen (living coding + behaviour questions)
All the interviewers are friendly and helpful.
I applied online. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Apr 2023
Interview
2 rounds hr interviews, asking some javascript questions, including async await, variable types, object manipulation.
Then technical phone interview, asking me to build a sudoku game with html, css, and javascript. 1 hour time limit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a sudoku game with html, css, and javascript.