I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Jul 2016
Interview
Applied online for an internship position on their website. I had to solve a task and pitch some ideas to improve Shopify along with my application. After 3 weeks, I got a call from the recruiter stating that my resume had been selected.
The first round was with someone from the talent acquisition team. She asked about my background, life story, my child hood. Basically she wanted to know how I developed a passion for coding. It was around 1 hour.
The second round was with a lead engineer. I had to show him a project that I was proud of. During the interview, I sent him a link to my Github repo and explained everything from scratch. He seemed to be really impressed by the end of the interview. He also asked a couple of questions related to scaling and overall microservices architecture.
The next week I got a call from the recruiter explaining that I was not selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. First round - Life story.
2. Second round - Talk about a project, scalabilty, microservices architecture.
The interview was intense and definitely exceeded my expectations. The technical rounds were particularly challenging, but I felt prepared. One of the system design questions was about creating a webhook delivery system with various complexities, and I was relieved because I had explored that exact topic on PracHub just days before. After tackling some coding problems, I faced some behavioral questions that tested my thought process. Overall, the experience was demanding, but I was thrilled to receive an offer, which I happily accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a webhook delivery system that retries on failure with exponential backoff. Cover idempotency, ordering guarantees, dead-letter queues, and how you'd handle a downstream consumer that's been offline for hours.
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.
Interview process went quickly. The recruiter was very responsive and nice, and made the whole experience 10 times better. The interviewers did not ask impossible questions and focused more on the thought process than the correct answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first 2 interviews were LeetCode-like questions. Not directly from leetcode, but if you know your data structures you'll be good. 3rd interview I had to prep a design document and share it and they asked questions about the decisions that were made and the rationale behind it.
