Canva

Front End Developer Interview Experience - Sydney, Australia

October 5, 2024

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first round was okay, building a logic for a simple kids' game.

The second round included three interviews back to back, which was a bit harder than I expected. The position was for a mid-level developer.

Questions

Build an algorithm to detect a win on a board game.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Canva Front End Developer role in Sydney, Australia.

Success Rate

7%

Pass Rate

Canva's interview process for their Front End Developer roles in Sydney, Australia is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive43%

Neutral21%

Negative36%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Canva's Front End Developer interview process in Sydney, Australia.

Canva Work Experiences

More drama than a soap opera

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

Pros: Free food Smart engineers

Cons: During the 1.5 years I've been at Canva so far: * I saw someone cry on a Zoom call with our Philippines team. * Canva's CTO was forced to apologize because his totally valid criticisms hurt the feelings of someone in a team that wasn't doing its job. * Bob Iger became an investor, prompting an engineer to post a very angry message in a company-wide Slack channel complaining that Bob Iger isn't pro-diversity enough. The Slack channel was locked, and I don't see that engineer at Canva anymore. The engineer must have resigned or gotten fired. Incidents like that last one are why I'm giving Canva a 1-star review for diversity. A small handful of Canva employees tear each other down for diversity's sake and wind up making worse strides toward D&I than even a heartless megacorp for which "diversity and inclusion" is just a box to check. I wish I could reveal the other fun stories, but I'd need to go into details, and Canva makes us sign non-disparagement agreements. I don't want to get sued, haha.

More drama than a soap opera

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

Pros: Free food Smart engineers

Cons: During the 1.5 years I've been at Canva so far: * I saw someone cry on a Zoom call with our Philippines team. * Canva's CTO was forced to apologize because his totally valid criticisms hurt the feelings of someone in a team that wasn't doing its job. * Bob Iger became an investor, prompting an engineer to post a very angry message in a company-wide Slack channel complaining that Bob Iger isn't pro-diversity enough. The Slack channel was locked, and I don't see that engineer at Canva anymore. The engineer must have resigned or gotten fired. Incidents like that last one are why I'm giving Canva a 1-star review for diversity. A small handful of Canva employees tear each other down for diversity's sake and wind up making worse strides toward D&I than even a heartless megacorp for which "diversity and inclusion" is just a box to check. I wish I could reveal the other fun stories, but I'd need to go into details, and Canva makes us sign non-disparagement agreements. I don't want to get sued, haha.

Great Pay, Slow Pace

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: Great salary and friendly work environment.

Cons: Fewer tasks and focus on certain fields.

Great Pay, Slow Pace

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: Great salary and friendly work environment.

Cons: Fewer tasks and focus on certain fields.

Good people, good work

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pros: - An interesting product that you can feel good about being involved with. - Strong engineering culture & practices. - Great people. - Good work-life balance.

Cons: Only here for 3 months, but no cons so far!

Good people, good work

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pros: - An interesting product that you can feel good about being involved with. - Strong engineering culture & practices. - Great people. - Good work-life balance.

Cons: Only here for 3 months, but no cons so far!

More drama than a soap opera

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

Pros: Free food Smart engineers

Cons: During the 1.5 years I've been at Canva so far: * I saw someone cry on a Zoom call with our Philippines team. * Canva's CTO was forced to apologize because his totally valid criticisms hurt the feelings of someone in a team that wasn't doing its job. * Bob Iger became an investor, prompting an engineer to post a very angry message in a company-wide Slack channel complaining that Bob Iger isn't pro-diversity enough. The Slack channel was locked, and I don't see that engineer at Canva anymore. The engineer must have resigned or gotten fired. Incidents like that last one are why I'm giving Canva a 1-star review for diversity. A small handful of Canva employees tear each other down for diversity's sake and wind up making worse strides toward D&I than even a heartless megacorp for which "diversity and inclusion" is just a box to check. I wish I could reveal the other fun stories, but I'd need to go into details, and Canva makes us sign non-disparagement agreements. I don't want to get sued, haha.

1.0
More drama than a soap opera
Front End Developer • Current Employee
Sydney, Australia
August 5, 2023
Pros: Free food Smart engineers
Cons: During the 1.5 years I've been at Canva so far: * I saw someone cry on a Zoom call with our Philippines team. * Canva's CTO was forced to apologize because his totally valid criticisms hurt the feelings of someone in a team that wasn't doing its job. * Bob Iger became an investor, prompting an engineer to post a very angry message in a company-wide Slack channel complaining that Bob Iger isn't pro-diversity enough. The Slack channel was locked, and I don't see that engineer at Canva anymore. The engineer must have resigned or gotten fired. Incidents like that last one are why I'm giving Canva a 1-star review for diversity. A small handful of Canva employees tear each other down for diversity's sake and wind up making worse strides toward D&I than even a heartless megacorp for which "diversity and inclusion" is just a box to check. I wish I could reveal the other fun stories, but I'd need to go into details, and Canva makes us sign non-disparagement agreements. I don't want to get sued, haha.

Great Pay, Slow Pace

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: Great salary and friendly work environment.

Cons: Fewer tasks and focus on certain fields.

5.0
Great Pay, Slow Pace
Front End Developer • Current Employee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
March 5, 2023
Pros: Great salary and friendly work environment.
Cons: Fewer tasks and focus on certain fields.

Good people, good work

Front End Developer • Current Employee

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pros: - An interesting product that you can feel good about being involved with. - Strong engineering culture & practices. - Great people. - Good work-life balance.

Cons: Only here for 3 months, but no cons so far!

5.0
Good people, good work
Front End Developer • Current Employee
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
June 16, 2021
Pros: - An interesting product that you can feel good about being involved with. - Strong engineering culture & practices. - Great people. - Good work-life balance.
Cons: Only here for 3 months, but no cons so far!

Canva Interview Questions

Basic Calculator

Implement a basic calculator to evaluate a simple expression string. The expression can contain parentheses, addition, and subtraction.

ArraysStringsStacks

Basic Calculator II

Implement a basic calculator to evaluate a simple expression string. The expression can contain non-negative integers, '+', '-', '*', '/' operators, and spaces; integer division should truncate toward zero.

Game of Life

Simulate the Game of Life, updating the state of a board based on the rules of cell survival and death in each generation. Modify the board in place to represent the next generation.

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