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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      18 Apr 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Ottawa, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Apr 2022

      Interview

      Interviewing at Shopify was the biggest waste of time of my life. Someone from Shopify sent me a message in my Linkedin asking me to start their hiring process. The hiring process was a set of 6 interviews: 1) General interview With: Senior Development Manager Time: 30 minutes About: general questions, like "Tell me an average day in your current job" or "Why do you want to work at Shopify". 2) Life Story With: Senior Recruiter - Centralized Engineering Time: 1 hour About: Tell your motivations, what you love, the hardest project that you worked on, etc. 3) Coding Exercise With: Senior Developer Time: 40 minutes It was an easy leetcode question using coderpad. 4) Pair Programming Interview With: Senior Developer Time: 1 hour 5) Pair Programming Interview With: Senior Developer Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes 6) Technical Deep Dive With: Development Manager Time: 1 hour One day after the last interview, I received the email saying that "... based on the needs of the team right now we’ve decided to move forward with another candidate..." Shopify's process: The company asks you to start the process. You do six interviews and answer all the questions. They say that they don't want you anymore.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Interview 03: Coding Exercise Question: Write a program that is going to receive an array of unique integers in ascending order. You program must return a list of list of integers with the begin and the end of each sequence. Example 1: input: {1,3,4} output: {(1,1), (3,4)} Example 2: input: {1,2,3,5,6,8} output: {(1,3), (5,6), (8,8)}
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Interview 04: Pair Programming Interview Question: Write a Santa Secret program.
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      Question 3

      Interview 05: Pair Programming Interview Question: Implement a class for LRU (Least Recently Used).
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      Question 4

      Interview 06: Pair Programming Interview Question: You must present in details one project that you worked on. Tell about your role in this project.
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