Shopify interview questions

First step was the recruiter interview with generalities about my experience and current role to see the fit. Second step was a pair code interview with a native Python problem. About the code interview, I didn't have a good experience mainly due to the initial solution presented wasn't in a production standard pattern and difficult to read. I was expecting a more applied solution and interesting problem.

Then they sent me the link for the coding interview, and they mentioned that I could use whatever I wanted, like search google, use stack overflow, or any other means. But the interviewer denied for me to use any of those