Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Shopify (Ottawa, ON) en feb 2019
Entrevista
After a brief and pleasant phone screening interview a 1:1 interview with the recruiter was scheduled, followed by a technical interview. The 1:1 was great, I felt that what the company was trying to do in terms of finding a good culture fit was very reassuring.
It was, unfortunately, the technical interview that made me second guess the process. I had to solve a series of algorithm challenges on a platform that neither the recruiter or I were familiar with. I felt that the questions were highly irrelevant for the job and didn't measure my programming skills at all. If you are the type that read books like "cracking the code interview" or spend time in sites like leetcode, these questions will be trivial. I've been working in the industry for many years and I don't remember ever having to print out geometrical shapes in the screen.
This was a bit disappointing. It was explained to me that this was a new step that they were introducing to the interview process, and I truly hope that they get to rethink it (specially because this initial technical test is followed by two other more complex tasks where you actually have to build an application - a lot better approach in my opinion).
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.
