For Canva, allowing candidates to use AI during the hiring process isn’t a question of enabling shortcuts or allowing “cheating”- it’s about practically assessing the real, usable skills our people need on the job. Almost half of our engineers leverage AI to prototype ideas, understand our large codebase and generate code allowing them to focus on what matters most: Empowering the World to Design. This meant that our hiring practices needed to evolve alongside the tools and practices our people use every day. Learn how we shaped new policy, updated communications and embedded the assessment AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude into our technical interviews.