A team lead reached out to me for a position that they had. They were quick to set up two interviews, one hour each. I opted to do the interviews in person, at the Waterloo, ON office. The first one is the 'life story' interview. The recruiter I spoke to was warm and friendly and showed me around .The important question here is towards the end where you're asked why you want to work at Shopify. The real answer is: because I'm a skilled developer looking for a job that pays money for my skills. They probably don't want to hear this, so you're better off saying something flattering about the company and how you want to work there really bad. The second interview is a short coding exercise on coderpad.io. The problem was about computing the checkout value of a cart of items after applying some discount rules (BOGOF or buy more that 2, get 20pc off). I chose to do it in Java because that's what I've been coding in lately, and produced a solution that worked for all of the test cases in about 30 mins. The next day I received a rejection call from the HR. The feedback was that they were looking for someone more senior for the role, and my code could use more comments and should account for scalability. I find it funny that they contacted me for the role and rejected me saying they were looking for someone more senior. The coding feedback is pretty useless. The code is very simple and with variable names and function names that explain what is happening, there should be no need for useless comments. About scalability: I was told that the important thing is to produce something that works by the end of test. If I was asked to address scalability, I would have made appropriate changes. I suspect Shopify gets a stream of good candidates that want to work there so they prioritize things other than skill. I suspect you need to be 'hip' to work there, I saw a bunch of yuppie types in hipster clothes. So I would suggest you look and act cool if you want to work there.