I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Canva
Interview
Following the initial the recruiter chat, there were three rounds of interviews with a half hour feedback / check-ins in between.
Process was challenging, however my recruiter was amazing! So generous and supportive!
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney)
Interview
An initial interview, Case study, Take-home challenge and finally a behavioural interview.
My advice with the IC/Craft take-home challenge is to lean a little less on a pragmatic solution and more on a novel/flourishy approach to UI. Canva is a design company first and feedback leaned more on showing something more 'dribbble'-esque. But be prepared to defend any decisions appropriately.
I made it to the final stage and was unsuccessful as I forgot a question, and needed prompting to get back on track. Make sure you jot down notes.
I've rated the interview as difficult based on how unforgiving the final stage interview can be based on my experience.
Note: You may or may not be interviewing with anyone that would be within your own group/domain, attendees are seemingly randomly assigned based on domain. As such, it's not really possible to get a feel of your potential team until after the final round, which was really odd.
Talent team is great at providing feedback between rounds and navigating you through the entire process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most challenging/difficult moment for you in the past 2 years?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Mar 2024
Interview
One screening interview where i had to write a program to solve an arithmetic expressions with numbers and +-* and no parenthesis followed up with 2 coding, one system design and one values/ management interview.
I was expected before the start of one of the interviews to state my preferred pronouns and am pretty sure that is the main reason I was rejected - I have no preferred pronouns.
It is a shame for a company that claims to be so inclusive to have such a blatant discrimination towards people without preferred pronouns.
I have answered everything they asked me to, so pretty much I had no idea why I was rejected. The feedback from the recruiter was saying that the person who rejected me said that I didn't go far enough in his task, but we spent more than 10 mins at the end chatting?! Why he didn't use the time to ask me more questions? But why bother for a person with no preferred pronouns, what a shame!!!!
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
System Design: Design a system like redit where i can add and reply to comments