Company details

Sydney, Australia

HEADCOUNT

3000-9999

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Media & Comms

WEBSITE

https://www.canva.com

About the company

Canva is a visual communication platform that helps people and teams create designs, presentations, documents, videos, and other content using templates, assets, and editing tools. Canva serves individual creators, schools, non-profits, and businesses, with paid plans aimed at teams and enterprises. Canva also ships AI-assisted creation features as part of the product. The company was founded in Australia and has expanded operations across multiple countries.

Locations and presence

Canva’s main footprint includes Australia (Sydney and Melbourne), the Philippines (Manila), and the United States (Austin and San Francisco), alongside additional hubs across Europe and Asia. Canva publicly describes flexible working, with many roles tagged hybrid, plus some remote roles depending on location and team.

Palpable Score

76.8

/ 100

Canva offers early-career entry through two clear pathways: a 12-week internship program with structured learning time and a 12-month Launchpad program open to final-year students and people with up to two years’ experience. Canva also gives candidates unusually specific process expectations, including update timelines after applying and a staged Launchpad hiring flow that includes a take-home challenge. The main cap on the score is limited public data on conversion rates, promotions, and retention, plus a known round of job cuts affecting technical writers in March 2025.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

16.8

/ 20

The company runs a defined early-career pipeline with both a 12-week internships program (penultimate-year students) and a 12-month Launchpad program (final-year students or up to two years’ experience).
Canva publishes early-career hiring in multiple locations, including Australia, the Philippines, and the United States, rather than treating early talent as a single-country initiative.
The company describes early-career roles spanning multiple specialties, and Launchpad explicitly frames placements across key business areas rather than limiting entry-level access to one function.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

15.0

/ 20

The company states candidates get an acknowledgement email immediately after applying and an update typically within 1–2 weeks, plus Canva says every applicant will hear back regardless of outcome.
Canva publishes a step-by-step Launchpad hiring flow, including a recruiter call, a specialist interview, a take-home challenge, and a final interview aligned to a skills framework.
The company’s internship listings on early-talent job boards include a concrete service level for outcomes communication after the posting closes, but public evidence of rejection feedback beyond a status update is limited.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.5

/ 20

The company pairs interns with a mentor and buddy and schedules weekly “study hall” sessions focused on craft, strategy, communication, and personal leadership.
Canva states both internships and Launchpad start with a one-week onboarding bootcamp designed to set early-career hires up for success.
The company positions Launchpad as a supported program with a Coach (manager) and a Program Manager, and Canva job content also references internal learning infrastructure such as “Canva University.”

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.0

/ 20

The company’s Life at Canva job ads frequently publish target salary ranges and explain how offers are set using market data and internal equity considerations.
Canva’s early-talent listings on graduate job boards include public pay ranges for some internships, which reduces guesswork for students comparing options.
The company has limited public pay-range visibility for many junior roles outside the postings that include ranges, and Canva also had reported job cuts affecting technical writers in March 2025, which slightly increases perceived risk for early-career stability.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

13.5

/ 20

The company describes early-career work as production-impacting, including examples like interns shipping features and early-career hires pushing work to users from early in their start.
Canva has mixed-but-leaning-positive intern sentiment in public reviews, with repeated mentions of intern events and strong workplace experience, alongside some notes about intensity and short contracts.
The company faced reported redundancies affecting technical writers in March 2025, and Canva does not publish early-career conversion, retention, or time-to-promotion metrics, which limits confidence in longer-term outcomes.