I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Jun 2025
Interview
Recruiter .. two phone screens, in person interview. I received a tour of the department, saw a lot of really nice office amenities. Seemed like a neat place to work
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON) in Mar 2025
Interview
Recruiter call followed by 1-on-1 pair programming.
The engineer I worked with was polite, AI tools were allowed, but I'm not sure it was wise to use them. They ask you to do a fairly simple exercise and then refactor and improve. I was a little rusty and nervous so I did not do well enough to get another interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Building a relatively easy function and later adding caching.
Immediately scheduled into a technical assessment with another engineer. It was done through CoderPad. It was a collaborative exercise and the engineer was very helpful with syntax issues. They also suggested using ChatGPT.