Canva·Backend Engineer

Canva Backend Engineer interview experience

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SydneyPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the initial recruiter screening, my interview journey became a long run of technical work and system-level thinking.

I moved into a live coding challenge early on, and then the process continued with additional coding. It felt like everything was timed and structured to keep a steady pace through multiple sessions.

At one point, the sequence extended into system design and even an AWS-related discussion, with another technical coding challenge sandwiched in before personality/behavior-style evaluation. In total, I ended up doing several rounds spread across roughly an hour each, and it took multiple weeks from start to finish. I also had a version of the process where there was an explicit mid-break

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