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      Senior Backend Engineer-Java Interview

      26 Apr 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sydney
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Canva (Sydney) in Apr 2025

      Interview

      Initial call with recruiter followed by a Computer Science Fundamentals interview. After passing this interview, the next round consisted of 4 interviews - Programming Language Fluency, System Design, Technical Review / Communication and Strategy, and Communication & Leadership. I was subsequently informed all my other interviews went well but I did not pass the PLF interview as the interviewer said that, although my code worked fine, it was too "long and complicated". The question itself was a very collections-dependent problem and I was forced to not use anything from java.util package (including Java built-in collections), so I had to re-implement all I needed from scratch. Obviously if they didn't want "long and complicated" code they should let the candidate use the java.util package in their solution. I really do not understand what their expectations are here and found this outcome very disappointing after all the time invested in this process.

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      Question 1

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