Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. Acudí a una entrevista en Shopify (Ottawa, ON) en ago 2017
Entrevista
Brief phone call with recruiter consisting of a few standard questions (what's your background, what are you working on now).
This was followed by an on-site interview with the same recruiter consisting of a more in-depth conversation about background, skills, work history and a focus on applicant personality.
After spending an hour with the recruiter, I sat down with the team manager to discuss the state of their projects, goals, difficulties etc. and where I would be able to help if I joined. Overall it was refreshingly candid.
By the end of the week I received a call letting me know that, despite the job description, they were in fact looking for a manager rather than an engineer.
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Shopify (Toronto, ON)
Entrevista
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
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
