I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Shopify (Montreal, QC) in Dec 2015
Interview
The process takes about four different steps. The first two steps are just to check how do you behave and during the other two they evaluate your technical skills. They are very nice and what they ask is what you should expect for an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The third step of the interview consisted of a classification problem. The point was to solve the problem in collaboration with the interviewer. To be more specific, the problem was a multi-class classification problem where the data consisted of product descriptions and the algorithm to use was TFIDF.
Recruiter call - why shopify and describe expected salary, describe one project you most proud and other stories and shared the interview process for technical round and onsite and prepare for your life story
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Recruiter call - why shopify and describe expected salary, describe one project you most proud and other stories and shared the interview process for technical round and onsite and prepare for your life story
Interviewed with the hiring manager, really weird experience because it felt like an info session for me to ask questions. Whole thing was done in about 20 minutes with the guy being distracted by Slack messages.
It came off like they already filled the role before this interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and why do you want this job
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Shopify (New York, NY)
Interview
An unnecessarily long pre-interview process that requires an assessment test, a ridiculous survey with 100 questions, and 1 hour pointless life story, although easy, was annoyingly long and took away from the interview experience.
Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Shopify with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 46% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 28 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 Data Scientist according to 28 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Background check: 9%
Personality test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
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