Canva reviews

3.9

70% would recommend to a friend

(847 total reviews)
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Melanie Perkins

84% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Canva has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 847 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canva employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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847 reviews
4.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

Probably the best employee benefits in Australia. Free food. 2k of free stuff every year. Great pay Great stock options. Lot of prestige Exposure to great engineers, and great hard working people Good culture of engineering discussion Guest speakers like the CTO of amazon randomly arrive and talk. Nice to be on the train home, and see random people using the app you worked on that day.

Cons

Navigating the codebase is like dissecting a dried piece of turd that's been sitting on the side of the road for 10 years. (and that's basically what it is). Especially the Front End. It's horrible. It has a decade's worth of horrible dev practices at every level baked in. It's too big to change now. Look up "avoid prop drilling principle" on react. Prepare to see it violated on a level that belongs on the Epstein list. We're talking 20 arguments passed through every function, 5 functions in a chain. There's a reason the reddit page is like non-stop "This stopped working" "That stopped working"... It's 1000 of some of the best engineers in the world using their mind to construct an elaborate maze of duct tape to hold together a rotting architecture... and they can't fix it. They are trying to build AI features on top to stay relevant but we are hearing the structure begin to start creaking, every other day is an incident. --- The 'Coach' management system is hit or miss. You will regularly get coaches that are great developers, but terrible at reading people or communicating expectations. ---

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