I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Bengaluru) in Feb 2016
Interview
I had three interviews with them and all interviews just asked the same question, 'Tell us your life story'. I understand that Life Story is a good way of judging peoples experience, but asking the same question 3 times did not make any sense to me. After the last interview they made me wait 15 days before sending any communication. I had to exchange several emails with the HR over a span to 7 days just to setup a call. On several occasions I was just kept waiting on skype not knowing whether we are having a call or not. All this only to be told that they have decided to go forward with other candidates, something that could have been easily done over email.
Our dev interview process should consist of a lifestory, technical deep dive and project review. You should have had 3 different types of conversations. We're following up on this. Great feedback on the Skype rejection call. We'll take that into consideration. Thank you.
Other Software Developer Interview Reviews for 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.
