Staff Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Shopify with 3 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 Staff Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Staff Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Presentation: 29%
Skills test: 14%
Phone interview: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Shopify in Jul 2021
Interview
I was internally referred by someone I had worked with for over 4 years previously.
Initial "weed out" coding screen went fine and we had a pleasant chat. Next was the "Life Story" and it too seemed to go fine.
Next thing I know I'm being passed over. My inside contact wasn't consulted, nor were three other people I had mentioned having worked with in the past who could vouch for me.
I asked for details and was given none. My internal contact asked for details (he's a manager) and was also given no information.
I'm leaving this review 1) because I'm frustrated by the lack of clarity and 2) because upon reading some of the other reviews here it is clear that Shopify has an HR problem.
I can guarantee that at least one other candidate had the same recruiter as I did and was passed over in a very similar fashion.
It's definitely not an isolated occurrence.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A simple question about sorting some CSV related data.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Shopify (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2024
Interview
pair programming with interviewer to solve a problem with design first, and write a service and run and test with postman. Then ask questions about how to scale up the solution.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Shopify (Berlin) in Mar 2022
Interview
At the beginning of the meeting I made a couple of basic mistakes. I put the mic near the keyboard in which I was typing my notes so the other person could hear the keystrokes, and I was no directly looking at the camera because I had an external monitor. These were rookie mistakes I know.
But the interviewer got totally mad about this. She didn't ask for a change nicely. She was totally out of herself. She literally asked "are you even interested in this call?"
I reacted and fixed both, but the interviewer kept harassing me until the end of the meeting even tho I fixed it and apologized about it very quickly.
Bad predisposition overall, like if the interviewer was just meeting an obligation to interview me because I was a referral. At the end of the meeting I felt she was super violent with me.
The first thing she said was basically "you're not a good match because you don't have enough experience with this position and we look for experienced people". But this is nonsense because I was referred to this position.
Terrible awkward experience. I had a good first impression of the Company, but after this, not anymore.
* applied through smartrecruiters
* filled out detailed questionnaire related to my experience, providing examples of coding background and technical leadership at FAANG companies.
* was then asked to do a phone screen without ever talking to a reecruiter
* asked recruiter for salary and team details before wasting anyone's time on interviewing, they said it is "impossible to know the salary"
I am not going to waste my time on some problem that has 0 real world application without knowing what Shopify would approximately pay. this interview process is one of the strangest I have seen in the entire tech industry.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
none, asked to do phone screen before recruiter even talked to me.