I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Jan 2022
Interview
Had an initial coding phone screen followed by two pair programming interviews and a Life Story interview with a recruiter.
I had an absolute wonderful experience. The recruiter was very quick, responsive and an absolute pleasure to work with. The developer interviewees were also very knowledgeable and helped me throughout the code pairing interview process.
The interview felt more like what you would be doing on the job rather than algorithms and LeetCode. It was an incredibly delightful experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Sort a list of objects with two different sorting identifiers
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.