Canva

The same How-We-Hire page states the loop takes "4–5 weeks from the initial conversation with your recruiter through to a decision", and that Engineering candidates skip the take-home in favour of a peer-to-peer technical round and a three-hour final combining technical problem-solving with behavioural questions. For non-engineering candidates the take-home is the load-bearing stage – both a portfolio-style submission and the spine of the final interview – so it absorbs real evening hours and needs to be timetabled against everything else in flight that month.

Canva runs two named early-career programs, both described on its Early Careers hub:

• Launchpad – a 12-month, full-time professional development program for career starters (final-year students or those with around two years' experience). Each "Launcher" is paired with a Coach (their manager) and a Program Manager, and the cohort works through skills workshops and "Sit-Down" review events together.
• Internship Program – a 12-week summer placement for penultimate-year tertiary students. The 2026/2027 cycle runs in Australia and New Zealand; Canva's newsroom post on early talent also names Manila and Wuhan as additional internship hubs running 8–12 weeks across various seasons. Interns are paired with a mentor and buddy, attend a weekly study hall, and ship into production – the firm cites one intern who built the platform's "mic drop" feature.

Both programs open with a one-week onboarding bootcamp, and interns who convert return into the Launchpad cohort – which makes Launchpad the funnel for both converted summer interns and direct-from-university intake.

A few specifics on Canva's Early Careers hub and How We Hire page separate the firm from the standard US-tech early-careers playbook:

• The flagship summer internship runs on the Australian academic calendar (a 12-week placement across the Southern-hemisphere summer), with additional cycles in Manila and Wuhan rather than the US Bay Area.
• The 12-month Launchpad program is closer in length to a full graduate scheme than to a typical eight- or ten-week intern-to-return loop, and it is the structural way both intern returners and direct hires land their first year.
• AI use is explicitly permitted across the hiring process for non-engineering roles, with Canva asking candidates to be ready to explain "what you kept, changed, or built on"; Engineering instead runs interactive, real-time AI-assessment challenges that the recruiter walks the candidate through.

For an applicant choosing between early-careers programs, these are the things that make a Canva offer concretely different in shape from a Bay-Area-defaulted tech employer, rather than the generic "innovative culture" pitch.