Nebulous. Applied, was never sent an email. Had a hiring manager just put something on my calendar without asking for availability. But the guy seemed pretty nice on the phone interview. Asked if he had any concerns, he said no. Which means he didn't want to mention what those concern(s) were which is a huge red flag. I'm able to progress through interview loops at many other comparable companies. I strongly think that I was racially discriminated against. Shopify needs to have mixed race interviewers as other diverse companies do. Having just 1 race in the initial interview allows for 1 interviewer to filter out races they personally dislike and filter in their own race. This has left me with a bad impression of shopify.
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Didn't ask me anything important or challenging, was told there were no concerns with my candidacy.
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.
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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)
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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
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Walk through a past technical project you worked on or owned.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Shopify (Montréal, QC)
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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.
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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.
