Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Canny as 8.3% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Solutions Engineer and Software Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Solutions Engineer and Solutions Engineer (SWE) roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Canny takes an average of 26 days when considering 12 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Senior Frontend Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 3 days), whereas Software Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 32 days).
Interview followed by take home test that focused on web dev. Passed on with no particular reason even though test was completed successfully. Bit of a waste of time to ask candidates to do a test and provide zero feedback.
I sent in an application and was initially auto-rejected. A few hours after the rejection, they backtracked and decided to give me a take-home assignment. I did the assignment and submitted it within a day. It says it should take about 45min to complete, but I found that to not be true. The app they use has a lot of outdated React practices, including using class components instead of utilizing modern hooks. I'm familiar with class components, but it's not something I've had to utilize in years, so I had to take some time to re-familiarize myself with it. Sent it in and got rejected without any feedback on what I could've done better. Was it the way I solved it? My responses? No idea, but I do know that I was able to identify and fix every bug in the app they asked about (and even found some they didn't ask about). Never even got to talk with a human for a phone screen. I don't mind take-home assignments for interviews when done right, but this one just seemed outdated and there just so they can offload time invested into the screening process to the candidate.
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I don't want to leak their assignment questions, but it was basically a few questions that mimic a client asking for help with debugging an app with problems, both frontend and backend.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Canny in Oct 2024
Interview
Same experience as everyone else. Sent a code problem via email and have to finish it and send in 45 minutes. The bugs were silly spelling issues and have no regard for people who don't have redux knowledge, etc. I wouldn't waste your time.