Canva

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Sydney, Australia

June 1, 2022

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and received an online assessment in a week. The assessment consisted of three easy HackerRank coding questions, each provided with five test cases. I received the rejection letter one month later.

Questions

3 easy HackerRank coding questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Canva Software Engineer (Internship) role in Sydney, Australia.

Success Rate

17%

Pass Rate

Canva's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Sydney, Australia is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%

Neutral67%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Canva's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Sydney, Australia.

Canva Work Experiences

Friendly, Fast, Fantastic

Frontend Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

January 26, 2021

Pros: Friendly culture. Genuine desire to grow you professionally and technically. Setting the bar for startup perks.

Cons: It's a lot of pressure being surrounded by talented people.

Friendly, Fast, Fantastic

Frontend Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

January 26, 2021

Pros: Friendly culture. Genuine desire to grow you professionally and technically. Setting the bar for startup perks.

Cons: It's a lot of pressure being surrounded by talented people.

Great work-life balance

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

October 18, 2023

Pros: Good pay, great culture, food is amazing.

Cons: Chaotic at times and unstructured processes.

Great work-life balance

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

October 18, 2023

Pros: Good pay, great culture, food is amazing.

Cons: Chaotic at times and unstructured processes.

They call it work, but most of the time, it's just fun

Graduate Back End Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

Pros: Incredibly friendly work culture and talented people to learn from. Breakfast + lunch daily. The work is fun. The company is still young, and there is plenty of opportunity to have an impact.

Cons: Can be noisy/busy if you're not good at filtering/managing requests. You will get fat from food.

They call it work, but most of the time, it's just fun

Graduate Back End Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

Pros: Incredibly friendly work culture and talented people to learn from. Breakfast + lunch daily. The work is fun. The company is still young, and there is plenty of opportunity to have an impact.

Cons: Can be noisy/busy if you're not good at filtering/managing requests. You will get fat from food.

Friendly, Fast, Fantastic

Frontend Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

January 26, 2021

Pros: Friendly culture. Genuine desire to grow you professionally and technically. Setting the bar for startup perks.

Cons: It's a lot of pressure being surrounded by talented people.

5.0
Friendly, Fast, Fantastic
Frontend Engineer • Current Employee
Sydney, Australia
January 26, 2021
Pros: Friendly culture. Genuine desire to grow you professionally and technically. Setting the bar for startup perks.
Cons: It's a lot of pressure being surrounded by talented people.

Great work-life balance

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

October 18, 2023

Pros: Good pay, great culture, food is amazing.

Cons: Chaotic at times and unstructured processes.

5.0
Great work-life balance
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
October 18, 2023
Pros: Good pay, great culture, food is amazing.
Cons: Chaotic at times and unstructured processes.

They call it work, but most of the time, it's just fun

Graduate Back End Engineer • Current Employee

Sydney, Australia

Pros: Incredibly friendly work culture and talented people to learn from. Breakfast + lunch daily. The work is fun. The company is still young, and there is plenty of opportunity to have an impact.

Cons: Can be noisy/busy if you're not good at filtering/managing requests. You will get fat from food.

5.0
They call it work, but most of the time, it's just fun
Graduate Back End Engineer • Current Employee
Sydney, Australia
April 11, 2021
Pros: Incredibly friendly work culture and talented people to learn from. Breakfast + lunch daily. The work is fun. The company is still young, and there is plenty of opportunity to have an impact.
Cons: Can be noisy/busy if you're not good at filtering/managing requests. You will get fat from food.

Canva Interview Questions

Basic Calculator

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

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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