I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify in Sep 2017
Interview
I have spoken to 3 different recruiters on 3 occasions in last one year. They never get back with a response after the "Life Story" call. I understand if they don't want proceed with the interview for some reason, but they should learn to say no. It is never a good idea to leave a candidate high and dry. When you put in so much time and effort to apply, the least you expect is pro active communication leading to full closure of the process.
I hope they improve the process.
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.