Canva reviews

- You can work for them for years, but you will still be considered a second-class citizen by people that worked in the headquarters of Sydney, Manila, and, lately, San Francisco. - They don't give any benefits to their remote employees worldwide. And they have a lot of them, sometimes working nearly since the beginning of Canva. But longevity and loyalty are not rewarded (for remote employees). - Job is demanding, and finding your marks on Slack and their tools is hard for newcomers. - Different timezones require long work days and constant availability, but that's an issue with any globally distributed companies.

Rapid company growth affects staff quality sometimes. Some managers play strange games and change rules on the fly. Very fast pace, in half of teams you can forget about drinking coffee with colleagues - you don't have time for that. Cross-team communication issues, constantly. Asynchronous culture doesn't work - you may wait for answers forever. To get answer you need to escalate, and for some reason your manager won't do it even if you ask them, so do it yourself. People says you may be asked to shut up and stop highlight problems on the company level. Expectations from your code are completely different from codebase quality (which is sometimes dirty and hacky) and often unclear. Different teams follow own architecture and code styles, so passing pull request review may be a kraken hell. Code monorepo adds, it's often impossible to avoid conflicts in PRs, difficult to push your changes (github locks/outages). Declared values and approaches not always a truth.