I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify in Jul 2024
Interview
The interview process is quite long, but each interviewer has been nice and they really tried to make me feel comfortable.
-Online assessment
-1st code pairing
-Life story (HR interview)
-2nd code pairing
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When did you decide to become a software engineer?
Then they asked more about my story with software development, my personal and professional projects.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Shopify in Jul 2024
Interview
Applied online, no contact with a real person, just an email about scheduling a coding interview.
Coding interview went fine, so I thought, easy LRU cache problem. , It was of the entry-level problem type, without much diving into actual experience building a product.
It took a few days, but I got rejected at that stage, without any explanation why (just the typical HR speek of "doesn't fit to what we're looking at right now"), which was surprising as I am on a Staff Engineer level with lots of Ruby experience
Recruiter refused to give specific feedback, even if asked directly. Total waste of my time.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Shopify (New York, NY) in Jul 2024
Interview
The first coding round was too easy. I failed on the next step - Life Story interview. Still don't understand what was the purpose of this round and what they are looking for.