I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2014
Interview
I applied online, met up with my recruiter in-person for a quick chat about my experiences and what I enjoyed the most about technology, and she told me a bit about the intern program at Shopify. Then I did two more online interviews with software developers and team leads. Both were very targeted towards my resume and previous programming experience (programming competitions, hackathons, personal side projects).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me why you chose to use this technology to build your web app and what you would change about its design if you were to build it again.
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.