The hiring process at Shopify takes an average of 29 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Lead Software Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Senior relevance engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 56 days).
Interview process was lengthy, but enjoyable! There was an interview with the hiring manager, the life story interview and then three 45 min interviews with team members I would have been working closely with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a content strategy you've set what worked well that you'd do again and what didn't go as planned?
Phone screen:
- Easy question about printing out distribution of numbers
Life Story:
I was asked to talk about my life story. I was describing in better details employment from CV, but wasn't asked a single question. Didn't know whether that's wrong or right. At the end I was asked what my salary expectations, why Shopify, what I am looking for on a new position and that's basically it. Later I read on Blind it wasn't about your career, but something else not related to professional skills.
Whether you just trying to prepare for real interviews or really want to work in a company that pays nuts read their company values which will give you better understanding how to crack Life Story stuff.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
PS: Build statistic distribution of numbers in 10 buckets and print out count of numbers in each bucket.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Londres, Inglaterra) in May 2022
Interview
The process was straight forward, I filled out the form on the Shopify website from which it took about 2 days to hear back with an invite to a lifestyle interview. There it was just about getting to know me and how I got on the road that has led me to apply for this position.
After that I was invited to a technical interview which consisted of 2 chats and a Email.
Overall I highly recommend creating a test store before the technical interview as it helped out a lot in preparation.
The whole process took about a month
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you add custom code for a packaging slip template