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      Backend Developer Interview

      18 Mar 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Canva

      Interview

      1. Online 2. HR interview 3. Hackrank, pair coding with one engineer 4. Final round (3 hrs), 2 sessions, 1.5 hr per session with two engineers. You can do it on site or via zoom.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Data structures Algorithms
      Answer question
      1

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      Software Engineer, Backend Interview

      6 Oct 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Canva (London, England) in Sept 2025

      Interview

      The interview process seems to change quite a bit so make sure you look for more recent descriptions of the interviews. However, there were numerous rounds, starting with a recruiter screening, followed by an AI proficiency interview, this process is quite straightforward. However, if you don't have much experience with using Co-Pilot or Cursor, I would recommend practising a bit beforehand by creating a boilerplate project and adding tests. Be careful to check your code for mistakes. Ultimately, this interview tests whether you can debug the mistakes that the AI makes and whether you understand what your code is doing. Next, they gave me a "Programming Language Fluency" interview, a system design interview and a behavioural interview. The Programming Language fluency test was to implement a class that they had come up with. I didn't find it particularly difficult however I would make sure that your dev environment is setup with the correct language. For me there was some confusion over the language to be used however, the recruiters were very helpful when I asked them about it. The system design interview was quite standard, I had to design a system to process card payments. This was a pretty straightforward system design interview though I had read "System Design Interview: an insider's guide" in preparation for another interview which did come in very handy. Finally the behavioural interview was pretty standard. However, it does come after having done the previous two technical interviews in one sitting which I found quite taxing. I didn't pass this one but they did arrange a call to give me good feedback which I did apreciate. I ended up failing the behavioural interview but they gave me some good feedback as to why I didn't pass it which has been helpful for future interviews. The recruiters were extremely helpful whenever I had any questions and so do use them as a resource should there be any ambiguity. In fact they were so pleasant that I left smiling even though I got rejected

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The AI fluency interview question was to "implement the backend for canva / google docs". The programming language fluency interview question was "implement a class for a comment section". The System Design question was "design a payment system".
      Answer question
      6

      Backend Developer Interview

      3 Apr 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sydney
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Canva (Sydney)

      Interview

      Initial recruiter screen, follwed by 2 coding tests, and then a systems design round and finally a behavioal round. They have so many stages which are not relevant to actual daily work. The process is very time consuming. They should update the process to make it more efficient.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Coding round 2d Arrray related question.
      Answer question

      Backend Developer Interview

      16 May 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Canva

      Interview

      The initial interview went smoothly with a friendly interviewer. However, the final round was challenging due to the strict and unfriendly demeanor of the interviewer, which made completing the task within the 45-minute time frame difficult.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      tictactoe DSA round Chat system system design question Code refactoring
      Answer question
      2

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