I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Jun 2016
Interview
I had four interviews:
1: Met with the recruiter, talked about my life story
2: Met with a developer, talked about my projects
3: Met with a dev lead, did a technical problem
4: Met with a senior dev lead, did a technical problem.
You can't fake it in these. Be genuine. If you don't know how to do something, ask, listen and learn. I came to the last three with really thoughtful technical questions that sparked discussions of 15+ minutes. This is a really good chance to show you're interested in how the company does things.
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.