I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify in Aug 2018
Interview
Shopify has a very different and awesome interview process, that is described on their website.
During my interview process, I talked to people that are very friendly and polite.
The first step was a quick chat with one of their tech leader's, to talk about how is the software development process at Shopify and also to tell more about the position.
After that, I had the "Life Story" interview with a recruiter, who was interested to know more about my life and my career.
And then I had a technical interview with a developer leader.
That third interview disappointed me because I was expecting that the technical interviews are going to be also different, but actually, it was a Google-like interview, focused on solving tricky and meanless algorithms problems.
Well, unfortunately, my recommendation to anyone who wants to pass those technical interviews is to read books like "Cracking the Coding Interview" and memorize as most algorithms as you can.
I hope someday they realize the problems of that kind of technical interviews and change that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your career;
Solve a String permutation algorithm problem;
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 45.6% 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%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Drug test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 2%
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