I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON) in Sep 2020
Interview
I joined the Shopify engineering community on LinkedIn. In September 2020, a recruiter reached out to me, asking if I was interested in finding more about Shopify engineering opportunities. I had two rounds of interviews. First, was the coder pad challenge where a Shopify engineer watched as I completed a fairly straightforward programming challenge. A few days later, I was contacted for the second round which entailed describing my career life story. I did not make it past the second round interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sort a list of strings using java comparator class.
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.