I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON) in Dec 2016
Interview
1. Lunch with a lead developer after internal employee reference
2. Life story with Recruiter
3. Technical deep dive with a senior developer (brought in my own project to talk about the challenges, how it was made, what I learned, etc)
4. Technical life story with another developer - How I got started in development, my career progression, opinions on technical stacks, etc.
5. Problem solving interview designing a system. (e.g. let's say we want to build a photo sharing site...)
6. Peer programming with a senior developer - Implement a shopping cart system.
Very open-ended, conversational style. Very positive experience overall.
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.