Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Shopify (Ottawa, ON) en abr 2019
Entrevista
A recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn to see if I was interested in a position with Shopify.
I am working full time and had to schedule around my deployments so from start to finish the process took over 2 months.
About a week after contact I was able to schedule my initial screening interview. This was a 15 minute phone call to discuss why I was interested, what position I would be interested in, and judge if I was a good fit for the company.
A few weeks later I had a technical interview from home. This was a programming exercise and video chat. Relatively easy problems to solve, it gave the team an idea of how I break down a problem.
Next was the life story interview. I scheduled a one hour video chat with my recruiter to tell her my life story. It's an open format interview and I recommend planning your high-level points in advance. The recruiter may ask questions throughout, so have a plan to not get off track.
The final stage was a full day on-site interview. First I met with the team lead to discuss past achievements and future goals, then a paired programming exercise similar to the technical interview, lunch (also part of the interview - how do you interact with the team?), a second paired programming exercise, and finally a high-level architecture discussion.
The paired programming exercises were presented with no guidance but very high expectations. My advice is to over engineer your solution even though they are very simple problems.
In the end I was not offered a position and given relatively weak feedback as to why.
Shopify is looking for a very specific type of programmer and I am perfectly fine not being it. In the end the interview allowed me to appreciate my current role more than ever.
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.