Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 6 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Shopify (Ottawa, ON) en jul 2014
Entrevista
Recruiter got in touch via email. Whole process took about 1.5 months largely because I was having a busy school term and they were accomodating
Step 1 - Casual chat with recruiter about career prospects and goals, info about Shopify
Step 2 - Code samples on github / past projects were reviewed by Shopify developers. Actually left comments on some of the code on github (found that very nice)
Step 2 - 45 minute video chat with same recruiter a week later about background, likes and dislikes. Very personable and informal chat to get to know each other.
Step 3 - 45 minute interview with engineer going over general technical questions - informal chat about development, methodologies, past experience and projects (discussing challenges encountered in the past, how they were handled etc.) - felt like chatting with a colleague about technology.
Step 4 - 45 minute interview with another developer who had more experience with the type of work I had done in the past and have more involved discussions about stuff I had done, why I decided to make certain technical decisions, discuss the current landscape within that field (scaling big data solutions type stuff)
Overall very positive experience.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Tailored to personal experience from past employment and projects.
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.
Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Shopify (Toronto, ON)
Entrevista
Lots of rounds and meeting multiple team members enjoyable experience and the interviews really ensure that the job is a right fit. There are multiple checkpoints to ensure both parties are on the same page
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Walk through a past technical project you worked on or owned.
Interview process went quickly. The recruiter was very responsive and nice, and made the whole experience 10 times better. The interviewers did not ask impossible questions and focused more on the thought process than the correct answer.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
The first 2 interviews were LeetCode-like questions. Not directly from leetcode, but if you know your data structures you'll be good. 3rd interview I had to prep a design document and share it and they asked questions about the decisions that were made and the rationale behind it.
