I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Canva
Interview
- This was the first time in my career when I DIDN'T feel like my professionalism and technical abilities were doubted because of my gender.
- The interviews weren't rocket science for FE, still challenging, rather their amount was a bit overwhelming.
- I think this is the best experience I had interviewing for an engineering position, the interviews just made sense and were rather practice-based.
- You are provided with preparation materials as everyone mentions here - they are mostly relevant.
- Every engineer I've encountered on a few technical interviews was very professional, collaborative, and friendly.
1) If someone ghosts you, contacting their colleagues will help. Tbh if you find any email address within the organisation - USE IT.
If you're not getting a reply after 2 days, you're not getting a reply. Follow up.
2) You can request adaptations and adjustments based on your medical condition, Canva has a special team for it - push HARD (HARD!!) for them. WARN the interviewers about it at the beginning of the interviews.
3) Soft skills: be professional, but you can be yourself and be slightly less formal. I felt like making interviewers laugh helped and was welcomed.
4) One of the interviews may have some ambiguous name - most probably it's a system (architecture) design interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
general soft-skill questions for engineers (that make sense)
Interview was good. The guys conducting the interview knows his stuff. But the interview questions weren't really good, Some are old school questions and nothing to do with the role.
Overall, the interview process is good. The interviewer gave me another chance and suggested to apply later.
The first round was ok, building a logic for a simple kids game.
Second one includes 3 interviews back to back to back and was a but harder then I expected, The position was for mid-level developer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build an Algorithm to detect a win on a board game.
Three coding challenges through Hackerank. 120 mins online. You can choose the language. For Front end it is Javascript and for Backend is Java. The coding challenges are equivalent to Leetcode Medium to Hard.