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Canva requires AI use in engineering interviews. No usage mandate for current engineers has been reported.[1][2]
Tools
- GitHub Copilot[1]
- Cursor[1]
- Claude[1]
- Claude for Work, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini, Glean[4]
- Forge (internal parallel-agent manager)[4]
Metrics tracked
- Superseded (June 2025): ACS reported that almost half of Canva's frontend and backend engineers use AI coding tools daily.[2]
- Canva says nine in ten employees use AI every week. Forge, an internal tool for managing parallel AI agents, has 475 monthly active users and is now supported DevX tooling.[4]
Guardrails
- CTO Brendan Humphreys said engineers apply a 'human touch' to meet the quality bar, and that domain mastery is needed to verify output and keep complexity out of Canva's ~70 million lines of code.[3]
Hiring, reviews & process changes
- Candidates for backend, frontend and ML engineering roles are expected to use AI tools in interviews. An 'AI-Assisted Coding' interview replaces the CS Fundamentals screen.[1][2]
- Humphreys said senior engineers now describe their jobs as 'largely review': writing detailed instructions for agents that run in the background, sometimes overnight.[3]
- Canva gave all 5,300 employees a week off normal work for its second AI Discovery Week in 2026.[4]
Reported results
- Humphreys said agents deliver 'hours and hours' of work done autonomously.[3]
Metric tags: Adoption rate, Agent autonomy, Code review
Editor's note: The Canva newsroom returns HTTP 403 to automated checks (bot protection) but loaded for readers on 2026-10-25. The post date is from page metadata.
Sources
- Canva Engineering: Yes, you can use AI in our interviews · 2025-06-11 · company source
- ACS Information Age: Canva insists job applicants use AI coding in interviews · 2025-06-13 · press source
- Business Insider: AI agents are transforming what it's like to be a coder (Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys) · 2026-02-15 · press source
- Canva Newsroom: Inside our second 'AI Discovery Week' · 2026-05-19 · company source
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