Canva Software Engineer interview experience

The pace then shifted quickly into back-to-back sessions: I had four interviews in a row, each with a different focus—system design, algorithms, coding, and behavioral—so there wasn’t much downtime between conversations. I also remember getting materials to read and code from, but I completely missed the email about them, which made me walk in a bit more on my own than I’d planned.

In system design, we discussed how I’d approach a specific problem and explored scaling options. The algorithms round was a geometry-style challenge that felt extremely hard, like it might map to an intractable