Engineering Manager Interview Experience - Sydney, Australia
May 24, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Offer
Process
Key areas assessed:
- System design
- Coding challenge
- People management
- Values
- Delivery
After the initial 5 interviews, I was required to do an additional 2 interviews. Feedback loops were really slow. After the final interview, it took 2 weeks to hear back from the recruiter.
Questions
I was asked to build a stopwatch.
Starting from basic functionality, I slowly increased the complexity of the problem.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Canva Engineering Manager role in Sydney, Australia.
Success Rate
0%
Pass Rate
Canva's interview process for their Engineering Manager roles in Sydney, Australia is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive33%
Neutral0%
Negative67%
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Canva's Engineering Manager interview process in Sydney, Australia.
Canva Work Experiences
4.0
Fun Office, Slow Bureaucracy
Engineering Manager • Current Employee
Sydney, Australia
October 12, 2025
Pros: Fun office, nice colleagues, breakfast, lunch, etc.
Cons: Becomes a corporation with many layers of management. The company moves pretty slowly these days.
5.0
Career Growth, Slow Processes
Engineering Manager • Current Employee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
September 24, 2025
Pros: A great company to work with if you want to take your career to the next level.
Cons: Heavy processes make things slow.
2.0
It's gone downhill so fast it’s hard to know where to start
Engineering Manager • Current Employee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
August 17, 2025
Pros: Remote friendly, decent pay, fairly qualified peers, good collaboration at the lowest level.
Cons: Ever since the company started to hire managers externally, the culture has gone seriously downhill, and there are not many promo opportunities. The top leadership were mostly at the right place at the right time, i.e., they joined the company back when management was trained through internal promotion and everyone was working closely with the founders. Now it’s all backstabbing games on the mid-to-high level management, and the positions are very windy.
All this is made worse by the fact that the company does random hiring freezes and team bonding budget freezes without proper explanation why. There’s talk in public and also internally about an IPO; maybe it’s related, but this has been going on for too long.
- 4.0Fun Office, Slow BureaucracyEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeSydney, AustraliaOctober 12, 2025Pros: Fun office, nice colleagues, breakfast, lunch, etc.Cons: Becomes a corporation with many layers of management. The company moves pretty slowly these days.
- 5.0Career Growth, Slow ProcessesEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSeptember 24, 2025Pros: A great company to work with if you want to take your career to the next level.Cons: Heavy processes make things slow.
- 2.0It's gone downhill so fast it’s hard to know where to startEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAugust 17, 2025Pros: Remote friendly, decent pay, fairly qualified peers, good collaboration at the lowest level.Cons: Ever since the company started to hire managers externally, the culture has gone seriously downhill, and there are not many promo opportunities. The top leadership were mostly at the right place at the right time, i.e., they joined the company back when management was trained through internal promotion and everyone was working closely with the founders. Now it’s all backstabbing games on the mid-to-high level management, and the positions are very windy. All this is made worse by the fact that the company does random hiring freezes and team bonding budget freezes without proper explanation why. There’s talk in public and also internally about an IPO; maybe it’s related, but this has been going on for too long.
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