I only did the screener call but everyone was really lovely and genuinely interested in what I had to learn more. It felt like they really took a seek to understand approach. I ended up accepting another offer but left having had an excellent experience.
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Question 1
We did a portfolio review and they asked me questions about ways of working
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Canva in Aug 2022
Interview
Initial screening interview over Zoom was terrible. Recruiter was 15 minutes late and didn't seem to care. They gave off the impression that they just didn't want to be there and they were quite intimidating and condescending to me.
Next was a technical interview where I was given the boilerplate code for an interface and told to design a system around it. The task provided was extremely vague and no context about what I was being asked to do was provided. I had to ask several questions to even figure out what I was being asked to do because the interviewer didn't explain anything. I think this was a fair task once I understood what was being asked because it involved building up classes step by step and thinking of how to interact with data within them.
I completed all of the steps of this stage successfully but was then emailed to notify me that I was not being progressed.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Aug 2021
Interview
Screening interviews were conducted by someone who didn't understand anything about the role and couldn't provide any context to help me understand the job better or determine whether I wanted to even apply.