I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Sep 2019
Interview
I was first asked to complete a remote coding challenge. I was paired with an employee and we worked through a problem. It involved defining methods to iterate over a sequence. I was then asked to complete a 30 minute personal history interview, where I talked about my experiences and how I became interested in Shopify. This was followed by another coding challenge. The topic was creating classes to iterate over a sequence. The two challenges were focussed on testing my programming abilities.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create an object class in Python to iterate over sequences.
Interviewed with the hiring manager, really weird experience because it felt like an info session for me to ask questions. Whole thing was done in about 20 minutes with the guy being distracted by Slack messages.
It came off like they already filled the role before this interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and why do you want this job
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Shopify (New York, NY)
Interview
An unnecessarily long pre-interview process that requires an assessment test, a ridiculous survey with 100 questions, and 1 hour pointless life story, although easy, was annoyingly long and took away from the interview experience.
I applied, got the assessment the next day, and passed the assessment 100%. The HR contacted me roughly two weeks later for pair coding. first round assessment: the question varies --> second round pair coding: system design
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
no behavioral questions. just typical system design questions