Canva·Software Engineer

Canva Software Engineer interview experience

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Positive

AustraliaPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter screening call, I got scheduled for an online technical sequence.

The first thing was an online assessment that blended a take-home-style front-end coding task with JavaScript. The questions felt like medium-hard LeetCode, but they were wrapped in a front-end context and backed by hidden test cases, so I couldn’t just rely on getting something that looked right.

After that, I had an additional online interview that went into the usual territory—behavioral questions that tried to surface how I work and what I value, rather than more code. Overall, the technical difficulty felt fairly average-to-challenging depending on the moment, but the vibe was

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