I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Jul 2016
Interview
Applied online for an internship position on their website. I had to solve a task and pitch some ideas to improve Shopify along with my application. After 3 weeks, I got a call from the recruiter stating that my resume had been selected.
The first round was with someone from the talent acquisition team. She asked about my background, life story, my child hood. Basically she wanted to know how I developed a passion for coding. It was around 1 hour.
The second round was with a lead engineer. I had to show him a project that I was proud of. During the interview, I sent him a link to my Github repo and explained everything from scratch. He seemed to be really impressed by the end of the interview. He also asked a couple of questions related to scaling and overall microservices architecture.
The next week I got a call from the recruiter explaining that I was not selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. First round - Life story.
2. Second round - Talk about a project, scalabilty, microservices architecture.
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.