Case Study: Canva improves technical hiring and candidate conversion with HackerRank

Canva cuts candidate drop-off from 46% to 1% with HackerRank

Canva, a hyper-growth unicorn startup providing an online design tool, faced the challenge of efficiently hiring top-tier engineering talent. The biggest hurdle was the significant time spent whittling down over 150 seemingly great-on-paper candidates to just 4 or 5 who were truly qualified for an interview. To counter this, lead recruiter Scott Crowe and his team turned to HackerRank for a skills-based assessment solution.

By implementing HackerRank's platform, Canva offered candidates a choice between a live one-hour CodePair session or a take-home technical test. This solution drastically refined the candidate pool and saved the engineering team considerable time. The results were a dramatic increase in conversion rates, with the non-submission rate dropping from 46% to just 1%, allowing Canva to efficiently identify fantastic programmers and sustain its hyper-growth.

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