It was an overall good experience interviewing with Shopify. All people involved in the process were friendly and professional. The process was slow but steady with next steps happening at consistent intervals (took about five weeks total): - They scheduled a one-hour code pad technical screening within a week of receiving my application. The code challenge was pretty basic and didn’t take long, so left ample time for conversation with the interviewer. - A one-hour “Life Story” interview with a recruiter was scheduled about a week later; this was basically talking through my resume. The conversation sometimes stalled on details about early career experiences, so more recent and relevant experiences felt a bit rushed at the end – be proactive about moving this conversation along to relevant topics. - A few days later, they reached out to schedule a final interview (3.5 hours + breaks). This final interview had three parts: 1) Technical problem solving presented a fairly standard application architecture question framed as a Shopify feature. The question involved the usual suspects of modeling, workflow, and data storage. The trickiest part was really just communicating using a google doc in place of a whiteboard. 2) Pair programming presented a fairly straightforward algorithm challenge, although the requirements were rolled out in stages. I began to solve the first stage using a fairly simple approach, but was stopped because it wouldn’t fulfill later requirements that hadn’t been given yet (this was super confusing). The final scope of the problem was highly solvable, although the session as a whole didn't feel very productive with mutual impressions of sloppiness. 3) Technical deep dive was a standard show-and-tell segment; pick something interesting and explain it. The interviewer was sharp and asked good questions without anything divisive.