Shopify Sr. Software Engineer interview questions

1) Pair programming task: small functional UI build, flexible in terms of approach and tools (I chose React). Helpful, collaborative interviewer. 2) Online cognitive aptitude assessment. A little nerve wracking mix of maths/reasoning. 3) Life Story interview: Some good resources online that describe the format and suggest approaches. Discussed how I got into software, where my passions lie, journey through my career, etc. Felt like a laid-back conversation. Recruiter was great. 4) Pair programming: System design/architecture exercise (Staff-level engineer). 5) Technical walk-through of a project I've worked on. Chose a medium-sized Next.js application that showcased broad tools/skills across UI development, integration, testing and infrastructure. Seemed to be well received.

Completed: 1. Screener 2. Cognitive assessment 3. Pair programming challenge 4. "Life Story" Remaining*: 5. Technical deep-dive challenge 6. Systems design challenge I'm conflicted because for steps 1, 3, and 4 I met some great people and was really enjoying the interview experience. After step 4 I was sent a generic rejection message. After requesting addition feedback I was informed that they don't provide that when a candidate has just started the interview process. The process was a significant time sink and it seems like they didn't have a hiring manager look at my resume until I had already toiled significant job search efforts for the Shopify interviews. *I was told a list of steps in contradiction to the candidate portal (access given after stage 3), so I'm guessing there were two more steps.