I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Apr 2016
Interview
I had an skype call with a recruiter, it was nice, casual talk, my history. work experience, college etc..
after that I had an interview with a lead developer, it was a little tough as I didn't expect that I would asked about scalability or how to handle millions of rows..
got asked abut APIs, rails and ruby. all was simple except the scaling questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
how to handle the growth of databases after 1M records.
typical interview process, one round with hr. followed by a 75 min coding interview pair programming with one of the engineers. In the coding interview it was encouraged to use ai.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
create a autocomplete system for search based on a list of search frequencies.
There was a first round with hr followed by a 1hour interview, use of AI was encouraged. Interviewer was not very knowledgeable and I had to discover a solution that she understands
The interview was intense and definitely exceeded my expectations. The technical rounds were particularly challenging, but I felt prepared. One of the system design questions was about creating a webhook delivery system with various complexities, and I was relieved because I had explored that exact topic on PracHub just days before. After tackling some coding problems, I faced some behavioral questions that tested my thought process. Overall, the experience was demanding, but I was thrilled to receive an offer, which I happily accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a webhook delivery system that retries on failure with exponential backoff. Cover idempotency, ordering guarantees, dead-letter queues, and how you'd handle a downstream consumer that's been offline for hours.