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      Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

      Mar 11, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Toronto, ON
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON)

      Interview

      Application starts online where you're given the option of doing 1/3 tasks (I did all 3): create a Shopify store to experiment with the product, complete a coding challenge, and discuss an idea you'd create for a hackathon, since they host their own hackathon every term. Then I was invited to the "life story" interview. This is literally discussing your story with a recruiter - try to make it interesting, don't give a boring story. They want to get an idea of who you are as a person, to determine if you're someone they'd like to work with. It says you don't have to plan it ahead since you're just talking about yourself, but I wrote down some bullet points to give me an idea of what I wanted to talk about. Afterwards, you'll be invited to another interview with usually two developers. Half of this interview is discussing a project you've worked on. You will go through your code and explain what it means, why you did it, etc. They asked me a few questions about how I'd improve certain features of my project. The next half is a real-life technical challenge, which they ask you to explain how you'd code it. You don't do any coding, just explain how you'd go about implementing it - what data structures, edge cases to consider, etc. I thought this was great because it was different than your typical HackerRank questions. I received my offer about a month after the technical interview. Overall, my experience was wonderful. It was very unique. Everyone I interviewed with was super relaxed, and I felt very comfortable speaking to them. The only issue I had was that I mentioned that I had competing offers and deadlines, but they were essentially ignored. Luckily I was able to accept my offer regardless.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you go about implementing this real-life system
      Answer question
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      Other Software Engineer(Internship) Interview Reviews for Shopify

      Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

      Apr 29, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON)

      Interview

      When you apply, you apply with your resume (and optional referall). After a couple days if your resume passes, then you get the link to the OA. After the OA (if you pass), then you get invited to technical interview. If you pass technical interview, then you get invited to life story interview.

      Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

      Feb 24, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Shopify

      Interview

      I completed the Online Assessment (OA) which consisted of three LeetCode-style questions. I was able to use my preferred languages, Ruby and C++. I successfully solved two out of the three problems, but unfortunately, it wasn't enough to move on to the next round.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      oa, with 3 leetcode questions and behavioural assignment
      Answer question

      Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

      Feb 5, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Toronto, ON
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON)

      Interview

      Very easy process, application then assessment and then pair programming and life story. final submission of references and wait for results. Very friendly people and overall process is very time consuming and tiring

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a OOP design question
      Answer question

      Shopify interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Shopify with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 5 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(Internship) according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  29%

        Drug test:  14%

        Presentation:  14%

        Group panel interview:  14%

        Background check:  14%

        Phone interview:  14%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Support Advisor(225) ;
        2. Software Developer(114) ;
        3. Software Engineer(113) ;
        4. Customer Support Advisor(94) ;
        5. Account Executive(84) ;
        6. Customer Success Guru(80) ;
        7. Junior Support Advisor(75) ;
        8. Senior Software Engineer(73) ;
        9. Data Scientist(57) ;
        10. Customer Service Representative(52) ;
        11. Merchant Success Manager(52) ;
        12. Team Lead(48) ;
        13. Customer Success Guru - Remote(42) ;
        14. Customer Support(40) ;
        15. Recruiter(40) .


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