Last December, I got an email from their recruiter asking me if I was interested in Canva. I was glad to give it try. The first round is the coding interview. TBH, I didn't do very well but I could think of a better solution - `Interval Tree` but I couldn't remember too much about details. After the interview, I found I had just implemented IntervalTree based on RedBlackTree 1.5 years ago. Anyway, I still had the chance to move on to the following interview: 3 Technical interviews + 1 management interview. I had these interviews last month. Overall I love these technical interviews as they are very practical. I screwed up in one of the coding interviews. Other feedbacks were all good. Particularly, I made a very very stupid mistake. Basically, I have to implement something with the native dom event. I just need to get the input value when the event is triggered. But I was using `KeyDown` instead of `KeyUp`. So I couldn't get the value correctly, I notice the problem and thought of a workaround - using the timer. The interviewer was not satisfied with it. He reminded me of using another event. I tried `KeyPress` but I didn't try `KeyUp` as at the time I thought I was using the correct one. I wasted a lot of time on that and felt the reminder from him was not helping at all but made me more nervous. When I have more time to reflect on that interview, I think I should be able to notice that stupid mistake very quickly because I understand what happened. Maybe sometimes I lack a bit of luck. That day I had a headache and took some painkillers caused by Covid-19 before the interview. My mind was gone blank under pressure. I could get instant feedback after the interview. BTW, I had an unsuccessful interview with Canva 4 years ago. This time the interviews were not that challenging as I was not asked to implement Virtual Dom.

Interview was good. The guys conducting the interview knows his stuff. But the interview questions weren't really good, Some are old school questions and nothing to do with the role. Overall, the interview process is good. The interviewer gave me another chance and suggested to apply later.