I applied online. I interviewed at Canva in May 2024
Interview
Was Interviewed for Senior Software Engineer position for Canva (Sydney) virtually in May 2024. After initial screening with HR on basic OOPS concepts followed by technical interview, was considered for Backend engineer position only. Got rejected based on the consolidated results of system design, programming language fluency and behavioural rounds
Technical interview 1 : was asked to implement an interface with Power generator, Capacity and Area
Technical interview 2 -
System Design : Whatsapp/FB like chat app
PLF : Implement an interface of Design editor and make the test cases pass. Was questioned on making the main class re-usable by multiple projects.
Behavioural : General questions on conflict management and team communication
Overall process was smooth, got response for each round within 2 days of completion.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Implement an interface for Power generators with Capacity and Area mapping
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
I applied online. I interviewed at Canva (Melbourne) in Jun 2023
Interview
It was a lengthy interview process. The behaviour interview was conducted by someone who doesn't have such qualifications.
Other coding and design interviews are similar way. But those are not up to the standard. It looks like interviews are not willing to hire but just doing interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a word cloud to display words on the screen.