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.
Interview questions [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.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify in Aug 2018
Interview
Shopify has a very different and awesome interview process, that is described on their website.
During my interview process, I talked to people that are very friendly and polite.
The first step was a quick chat with one of their tech leader's, to talk about how is the software development process at Shopify and also to tell more about the position.
After that, I had the "Life Story" interview with a recruiter, who was interested to know more about my life and my career.
And then I had a technical interview with a developer leader.
That third interview disappointed me because I was expecting that the technical interviews are going to be also different, but actually, it was a Google-like interview, focused on solving tricky and meanless algorithms problems.
Well, unfortunately, my recommendation to anyone who wants to pass those technical interviews is to read books like "Cracking the Coding Interview" and memorize as most algorithms as you can.
I hope someday they realize the problems of that kind of technical interviews and change that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your career;
Solve a String permutation algorithm problem;
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON)
Interview
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
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk through a past technical project you worked on or owned.
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.
Interview questions [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.
