I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Shopify
Interview
I applied online. There was a small exercise as part of the application, where you need to write a program to analyze a business problem and solve a few SQL questions. This is not difficult.
In 2 weeks I received an interview invitation. First round is "life story", which is like a behavioral interview. General behavioral questions would be expected. The interviewer was very nice and whole process was very conversational.
And then I received the second interview invitation in a week. This round was with 2 data scientists from Shopify. The interview contains two parts, first was to walk through a data science project I did solely by myself, and the second part was an analytical problem exercise.
I received offer about 2 weeks after the second interview,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Previous background, why data science, why Shopify
2. The analytical problem was more like a business consulting case, where they give you a scenario, and ask you how you would address it. It would be good to always keep in mind of the business goal, think about what matrix to use, etc.
three round interview: HR, coding challenge, tech in-person interview. HR- screening Coding challenge: hackerrank Tech interview: showcase your achievement and one of the best project for which you feel proud. Feedback question and answer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How you evaluated performance of your ML algorithm?
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Montreal, QC) in Sept 2022
Interview
Non-traditional. They ask you to tell your life story and teach them how to do something - anything to see if you're any good at talking someone through a process they've never done before. They also arrange a conversation with a squad lead so that management can get an idea of what that person is like under pressure.
