J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Shopify (Montréal, QC) en avr. 2017
Entretien
The first interview was a phone screen with HR. He asked about my experience and gave a brief description about the roles they were looking to fill.
The follow-up interview was a skype call with the same HR rep to discuss my "Life Story." This was an unusual approach to interviewing a candidate. While I appreciate the rep's explanation that this prevents "B.S." answers to stock questions, it is difficult to sum up one's life in 15 to 30 minutes without much indication from the rep if they're hearing relevant information (nor much indication with regards to what counts as "relevant"). The process was pleasant, but tricky to navigate. My general sense from this experience is that the answers didn't matter much as long as the rep liked you and your career path (i.e., "life story"?) somewhat matched the position's description. But this is only my guess. It was a deeply opaque approach to interviewing, an undertaking which is already inscrutable for the most part.
The interviews were for a technical role but said interviews did not involve any technical discussions besides the listing of technologies used (little more than buzzwords). I was disappointed not to have been able to talk shop with developers, or at least to take on some technical challenge, before receiving a final answer from the rep despite having gone two interviews deep.
The interview was intense and definitely exceeded my expectations. The technical rounds were particularly challenging, but I felt prepared. One of the system design questions was about creating a webhook delivery system with various complexities, and I was relieved because I had explored that exact topic on PracHub just days before. After tackling some coding problems, I faced some behavioral questions that tested my thought process. Overall, the experience was demanding, but I was thrilled to receive an offer, which I happily accepted.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design a webhook delivery system that retries on failure with exponential backoff. Cover idempotency, ordering guarantees, dead-letter queues, and how you'd handle a downstream consumer that's been offline for hours.
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Shopify (Toronto, ON)
Entretien
Lots of rounds and meeting multiple team members enjoyable experience and the interviews really ensure that the job is a right fit. There are multiple checkpoints to ensure both parties are on the same page
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Walk through a past technical project you worked on or owned.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Shopify (Montréal, QC)
Entretien
Interview process went quickly. The recruiter was very responsive and nice, and made the whole experience 10 times better. The interviewers did not ask impossible questions and focused more on the thought process than the correct answer.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
The first 2 interviews were LeetCode-like questions. Not directly from leetcode, but if you know your data structures you'll be good. 3rd interview I had to prep a design document and share it and they asked questions about the decisions that were made and the rationale behind it.
