I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Shopify (Vancouver, BC) in May 2022
Interview
Asks basic questions about experience on application. Contained discriminatory questions about sexual orientation, age, and race. Use a 3rd party website, which is how they get around the legality of this.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON)
Interview
The whole process was very long and I feel like I wasted a bunch of time, but they were at least upfront about how long it would be from the beginning.
Overall, I had a negative experience interviewing- this is honestly the only interview I've ever had that left a bad taste in my mouth. Like others have said, the HR screener was a bit unprofessional. I also thought they were very harsh on the feedback considering it was a 4 hour interview. Also I think it's mostly men on the design teams. All of the designers I interviewed with were men, and when I asked about diversity to one interviewer, he wasn't able to answer well.
-HR screen- video
-4 hour interview:
-behavioral
-whiteboarding design challenge
-portfolio presentation
My negative feedback:
- The guy who I presented my portfolio for was on his phone while i was presenting... so that definitely didn't feel great. This guy also said he hadn't seen my resume or looked at any of my work beforehand. He was nice enough but that all seemed pretty unprofessional. I had a really thoughtful, detailed portfolio presentation of 1 project (like they suggested), so it felt like it went on deaf ears.
- I got feedback that during the whiteboarding, I wasn't being collaborative enough, although I felt this was quite a stretch. I was talking back and forth the whole time, I asked him for his thoughts, and had questions for him, and changed the design according to his feedback, so I'm not sure how they saw that as being uncollaborative.
- One thing that actually really irritated me was that even though I had tons of other work on my portfolio for them to look through, they specifically said that it was negative that I couldn't show my most recent work that was under NDA. I was honestly shocked about this because they said they wanted me to at least "talk about this recent work and express my mind about it", which I did as much as I could ,as far as talking about my role, general process, etc without giving much away.
-The hr screener refused to even give a ballpark salary before I got into the 4 hour interview, and was pretty rude about it. Why would I waste 4 hours of my life if I don't even know a broad range of if it's within my salary expectations??
Yikes, never again.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Singapura) in Sep 2021
Interview
I applied online through Linkedin. The recruiter responded within a week to schedule the first interview with the hiring manager.
The call with the hiring manager lasted around 30-45min. The interview felt slightly ill-prepared, sounded like she was just skimming through my resume and portfolio in real-time. Questions didn't seem particularly behavioral or targeted, sounded like random questions she had while looking through my work.
A random observation - the interviewer talked a lot more about herself as compared to asking questions/listening, which I found funny as compared to my experience interviewing with other companies where it's usually more conversational.