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).
Applied online, heard back from a recruiter that they'd like to book a call with someone on the team, had the call with someone on the team (not the person the position reports to).
The recruiter was scattered, hadn't pulled up anything on her screens, didn't know who she was talking to, etc. At the end of the call, she promised that she "wouldn't ghost me."
I was then invited to have a call with another recruiter. I was waiting for her to begin the call within Google Meets and was then emailed and told to call her at a long distance number. I could hear her puttering around, pressing microwave buttons, etc. She was asking me questions which made it clear that she did not have my resume in front of her, nor had she reviewed it in advance of the call. I was also charged $10 for the long distance call because she did not use her own Google Meets invite (probably because she wasn't seated at her desk and perhaps she didn't know how to use the platform from her cell phone).
Both recruiters weren't knowledgeable of the position, were disorganized, and most importantly, appeared to not care about their own recruitment process or how they represented their company.
I didn't hear back despite the promise that I would - however I can't be sure if I was determined to be a poor fit or if I just fell off the radar because of their disorganization and/or detachment from their own recruitment process.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify in Feb 2021
Interview
apply online, first video call interview, I was told to get feedback in a week or so about the next steps and they never come back to me with an answer, even after sending an email 3 weeks later asking for an update, they just simply ghosting me, really disappointing that a company like this takes candidate experience so poorly, really disappointing "Life Story interview" as they call it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
background, current responsibilities and motivations to join