Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Shopify en ene 2021
Entrevista
I applied through LinkedIn, and was contacted by one of their recruiters. I had a Google Meet scheduled with another recruiter (for the "Life Story" interview) two business days later. The recruiter was nice enough, though a bit poker-faced and it was hard to tell how well it had gone. As I found out a few days later, it did not go well enough, as I was not asked to continue on in the interview process.
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.