Software Developer 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 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 62 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 Developer according to 62 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Group panel interview: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Jul 2014
Interview
Recruiter got in touch via email. Whole process took about 1.5 months largely because I was having a busy school term and they were accomodating
Step 1 - Casual chat with recruiter about career prospects and goals, info about Shopify
Step 2 - Code samples on github / past projects were reviewed by Shopify developers. Actually left comments on some of the code on github (found that very nice)
Step 2 - 45 minute video chat with same recruiter a week later about background, likes and dislikes. Very personable and informal chat to get to know each other.
Step 3 - 45 minute interview with engineer going over general technical questions - informal chat about development, methodologies, past experience and projects (discussing challenges encountered in the past, how they were handled etc.) - felt like chatting with a colleague about technology.
Step 4 - 45 minute interview with another developer who had more experience with the type of work I had done in the past and have more involved discussions about stuff I had done, why I decided to make certain technical decisions, discuss the current landscape within that field (scaling big data solutions type stuff)
Overall very positive experience.
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Tailored to personal experience from past employment and projects.
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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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
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON)
Interview
Lots of rounds and meeting multiple team members enjoyable experience and the interviews really ensure that the job is a right fit. There are multiple checkpoints to ensure both parties are on the same page
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Walk through a past technical project you worked on or owned.