Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Shopify with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 51% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 63 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Shopify overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Shopify as a Software Engineer according to 63 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Drug test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 2%
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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.
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Question 1
create a autocomplete system for search based on a list of search frequencies.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Nairobi) in Oct 2019
Interview
The first stage was a 30 min video call. The aim was to find out if I was a good fit,
The next stage was a technical interview. pretty standard, select language you are comfortable with. It is meant to last 1 hour but you can finish in less than 30 min depending on how good you are.
After that, I got to the technical deep dive. This is where the journey came to an end for me. You select a project you have worked on before and break it down, highlighting your role and experience. The feedback I got is I didn't to a thorough deep dive into the project I selected.
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Question 1
you are given a list of sorted words as they would appear in a dictionary, but the language is 'alien' to you. Using the words, create a list that shows the order of occurrence of letters in that language's 'alphabet' sequence.
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.