Canva Software Engineer interview experience

The whole thing felt like it stretched across five distinct interviews, starting with a coding exercise where I implemented functions and unit tests using code they provided. After that, I moved into an algorithm design round where I had to think through a word-collision style problem on a fixed-size canvas—choosing a data structure to detect collisions as words are placed and then estimating memory usage.

Next came a system design conversation centered on a chat app, which felt fairly standard compared to what I expected from the role. Then there was a second coding test again in the same