I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Montreal, QC) in Apr 2017
Interview
The first interview was a phone screen with HR. He asked about my experience and gave a brief description about the roles they were looking to fill.
The follow-up interview was a skype call with the same HR rep to discuss my "Life Story." This was an unusual approach to interviewing a candidate. While I appreciate the rep's explanation that this prevents "B.S." answers to stock questions, it is difficult to sum up one's life in 15 to 30 minutes without much indication from the rep if they're hearing relevant information (nor much indication with regards to what counts as "relevant"). The process was pleasant, but tricky to navigate. My general sense from this experience is that the answers didn't matter much as long as the rep liked you and your career path (i.e., "life story"?) somewhat matched the position's description. But this is only my guess. It was a deeply opaque approach to interviewing, an undertaking which is already inscrutable for the most part.
The interviews were for a technical role but said interviews did not involve any technical discussions besides the listing of technologies used (little more than buzzwords). I was disappointed not to have been able to talk shop with developers, or at least to take on some technical challenge, before receiving a final answer from the rep despite having gone two interviews deep.
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 Developer 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 45.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer 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 Developer 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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