I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Jun 2015
Interview
The entire process is very conversational with technical questions being tailored towards your prior experiences. My process started with a Skype call with a recruiter, followed by two more sessions with a developer and a team lead respectively. The recruiter interview is mostly there to screen out fake personas/people that would simply not be a cultural fit. You are not going to get asked the stereotypical algorithmic design questions that are adored by most tech companies; although it is implied that you know them! Make sure you demonstrate your passion for coding and why you got into it in the first place. The fact that the company is taking so much time making sure potential hires are as culturally fit as they are technically was a great motivator for me!
The Skype interviews with the developers will likely be about something you want to talk about. So be sure you are ready to go into “significant" detail in whatever it is you choose. I highly recommend you put your projects on GitHub so they can see your code! I got asked questions based upon overall design decisions I made (e.g. what design patterns did you find helpful? how come you didn't do this? Is this method thread safe? etc.) and in terms of how my application would scale with a large number of users (does it work with 10 users? how about 10 million?). Again, the questions they ask you are going to be specifically related to your resume or whatever project you choose to talk about. Definitely consider talking about scalability, at least they loved it when I did.
If you made it this far, and you are out of town, you will most likely be invited for an onsite visit to their amazing office in Ottawa, Ontario. It is very Google like. You can tell they have invested serious amounts of cash in establishing their culture. Having interviewed at Google, I could tell they took their culture very seriously. To the say the least, I was mesmerized. It is roughly a 6 hour day of interviews with your potential manager and coworkers and a pair programming session somewhere in between; did I mention you get to eat their lunch, which was absolutely delicious! Interviews get more technical with emphasis on design decisions you would make to solve certain problems. Overall very fun! The pair programming session was very cool; you work alongside another developer to solve some random problem he chooses. Remember, there is no correct answer. Thing big. Be clear. Let your creativity fuel your conversations and most importantly BE YOURSELF.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was a Pair Programming session in which you work with another developer to solve some problem. Be prepared to do a bit of coding!
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 45.5% 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%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Drug test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 2%
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