I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Canva in Aug 2025
Interview
Initial chat with talent rep. 1 AI assisted interview and then 4 rounds: behavioural, code review, system design and programming. Took about 3 weeks in total.
You'll get matched to random people who aren't really connected to the role you're applying for and at the end of it there's supposedly a team selection process where you might be offered a role you hadn't applied for. This whole process makes you question what you're even doing this for since you'll only get to talk to your potential manager and team mates who could really answer your questions about the role once the process is over.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when your team failed at something and what you did to mitigate that failure.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Canva in Aug 2025
Interview
It was AI assisted interview, problem statement was very broad you need to think out loud and ask as many questions as possible. My interviewer was really keen to see what do I ask and what’s the quality of question. According to feedback given to me later I was not prompting AI to fix issues instead I was doing that myself in the code that was slowing me down which led to rejection (I think). Problem itself was not too hard to figure out but they check how you use AI to solve it for you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to implement one of Canva’s features.
I applied online. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Jun 2025
Interview
I recently interviewed for the Senior Software Engineer position at Canva. After passing the HR screen, I was informed that I would take an AI-assisted programming interview. The questions were quite innovative. Although I didn't succeed, I'm willing to share my experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was given very vague questions, similar to designing a text-image rendering system. The task was to take input text, a specified font file, and output an image of the text in that font format. I was allowed to use AI programming tools like Cursor and Copilot.