Canva

Senior Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience - United States

June 1, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first round is an introductory interview with a recruiter. The second round is an AI-aided code interview. The third round is without AI, but I did not get into this stage because I failed directly at the second stage.

Questions

Code with AI

How to optimize gender diversity for an image search engine?
Given a ground truth data sheet and the optimized results, how to evaluate the optimization?

Interview Statistics

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Canva's interview process for their Senior Machine Learning Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Canva's Senior Machine Learning Engineer interview process in United States.

Canva Interview Questions

Basic Calculator

Hard

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

ArraysStringsStacks

Basic Calculator II

Medium

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.

StringsStacks

Game of Life

Medium

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.

Arrays