Frontend Software Engineer Interview Experience - Melbourne, Australia
August 1, 2023
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Process
Be prepared for a challenging interview process as an engineer, as it involves many rounds. I had to go through the most I've ever experienced:
- 1hr Recruiter screen: answered questions about my experience and goals.
- 90min HackerRank OA (typical medium LeetCode questions).
- 1hr pair programming round: build a to-do list with local storage.
- 3 coding rounds (DSA, JavaScript): Given a JS Object with data in a Gist, render it with some nice UI. Another LeetCode medium. Build Kahoot UI.
- Behavioural round.
I was told there is also a team matching round, but I didn't make it that far.
Clean and performant code is essential. I did poorly in the final DSA round due to bad time complexity.
Questions
Build some UI with JavaScript and CSS, data structures and algorithms, and time complexity.
I can't remember the names of the LeetCode questions from the OA and final interview, but one of them was:
Find the length of the longest contiguous sub-array where the sum of the elements in the sub-array is less than or equal to "k".
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Canva Work Experiences
2.0
Culture dominated by toxic positivity and massive egos
Frontend Software Engineer • Former Employee
August 31, 2022
Pros: Benefits and share options are decent.
Food and coffee in the office are great too, but the office itself is standard open-plan hell, with desk positions shuffling multiple times per year.
Cons: The company-wide culture is a surreal hellscape of toxic positivity. It massively invades into the personal lives of employees, and micromanaging is the norm.
The toxic positivity is part of a culture that demands loyalty and demands that your colleagues be treated like your own family, with after-hours social events being the norm. The boundary between work and home is utterly nonexistent.
The company claims it has a flat, manager-less organizational structure, but this creates an environment where a few entrenched engineers hold unilateral control over massive sections of the codebase with no accountability.
There's also no room for career development outside of their very strict career plans, which are applied unilaterally. Engineers are forced to remain engineers, are expected to become overworked senior engineers, and are not able to move to different roles in the company.
5.0
Great company, great people, and challenging work
Frontend Software Engineer • Current Employee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
July 30, 2021
Pros: - The people are really great.
- Interesting and challenging problems.
- Remote worker accommodation is excellent (I am remote).
- Work-life balance is good; we work hard, but health and family come first.
Cons: Some growing pains, but I expected this for the stage the company is at.
5.0
Wonderful company and workplace
Frontend Software Engineer • Current Employee
February 20, 2021
Pros: Extremely smart people (ex-Google, Microsoft...), amazing daily breakfast/lunch, pets roaming the office, plus astronomical growth and opportunities!
Cons: The company is moving so fast, you must keep up with the changes and goals!
- 2.0Culture dominated by toxic positivity and massive egosFrontend Software Engineer • Former EmployeeAugust 31, 2022Pros: Benefits and share options are decent. Food and coffee in the office are great too, but the office itself is standard open-plan hell, with desk positions shuffling multiple times per year.Cons: The company-wide culture is a surreal hellscape of toxic positivity. It massively invades into the personal lives of employees, and micromanaging is the norm. The toxic positivity is part of a culture that demands loyalty and demands that your colleagues be treated like your own family, with after-hours social events being the norm. The boundary between work and home is utterly nonexistent. The company claims it has a flat, manager-less organizational structure, but this creates an environment where a few entrenched engineers hold unilateral control over massive sections of the codebase with no accountability. There's also no room for career development outside of their very strict career plans, which are applied unilaterally. Engineers are forced to remain engineers, are expected to become overworked senior engineers, and are not able to move to different roles in the company.
- 5.0Great company, great people, and challenging workFrontend Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaJuly 30, 2021Pros: - The people are really great. - Interesting and challenging problems. - Remote worker accommodation is excellent (I am remote). - Work-life balance is good; we work hard, but health and family come first.Cons: Some growing pains, but I expected this for the stage the company is at.
- 5.0Wonderful company and workplaceFrontend Software Engineer • Current EmployeeFebruary 20, 2021Pros: Extremely smart people (ex-Google, Microsoft...), amazing daily breakfast/lunch, pets roaming the office, plus astronomical growth and opportunities!Cons: The company is moving so fast, you must keep up with the changes and goals!
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