I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Shopify (Waterloo, ON) in Feb 2015
Interview
The interview was extremely casual. They say they take a different approach to interviews, and they really mean it. No programming puzzles, no quizzing on the minutiae of Java, no behavioural questions — they just want to have a conversation and get to know you. They are looking for candidates with passion and with high potential, so focus on showing those qualities rather than impressing them with all the stuff you know.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Life story questions: Where were you born? What school did you go to? What brought you to this field? What team do you see yourself working with at Shopify?
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.