I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Feb 2017
Interview
The interview was a very invasive "Life Story" style interview, which asked about my childhood, current status, opinions of people I have met, and so on. Then a technical life story interview was an informal chat about what I was doing currently. There was no structure to it, other than what could be inferred out of these informal life story chats. I didn't make it to the subsequent steps, without any explanation, but likely due to the fact that the interviewer didn't like my Life Story.
The technical interviewer was more concerned about the battery life in his laptop than actually learning about me. With 15 minutes remaining, he said to me "I have 3% battery life left, do you want to ask anything in the remaining 3%?" Completely unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your childhood, where did you grow up and what kinds of things did you do and enjoy?
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
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON)
Interview
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
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk through a past technical project you worked on or owned.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Shopify with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 62 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Shopify overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Shopify as a Software Engineer according to 62 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Group panel interview: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 2%
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