How Canva Redesigned Technical Interviews for the AI Era

All Front End and Back End Engineers at Canva now use AI tools daily. They leverage AI to prototype ideas, understand their large codebase, and generate code. This new way of working meant that job interviews didn’t mirror the new engineering workflows. The old model was syntax recall and algorithm drills but, the new and now ‘real’ work was prompting, code review and trade-offs. We needed better signal on engineering judgment so we evolved our hiring practices to match the new tools and practices being used.