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      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      25 Mar 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Shopify (New York, NY)

      Interview

      Three months of wasted time, they put you with random company employees to interview. Easy questions/tasks, but the interviewers lied (or were just not paying attention) about what was discussed. I've never been more insulted/annoyed by an interview process. It was truly indicative of Shopify's mediocrity.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Make a 10x10 grid and program a "roomba" to move around it without going off the edge.
      1 Answer
      2

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      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      9 Oct 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify in Aug 2025

      Interview

      They contacted me. Process took 2 weeks, at reference stage. Interviewers were all EMs, and largely focused at system design interviews with AI. At the end of 5 stage interviews, they asked for references then they ceased all communication.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a system to support a 3rd party digital photo shoot service
      Answer question

      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      5 Aug 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Toronto, ON) in Jul 2024

      Interview

      HR emailed me a link to 2 tests: A lengthy IQ test and a shorter personality test. Then HR schedules a pair programming interview. (Still no contact with a human being). The description of the programming interview was that we would pair up to solve a real world problem. When I joined the programming interview with an engineer, he told me to use ChatGPT or Google any resources if I wanted as much as I need and then asked me to code LRU cache. It was not a pair programming interview, but me leveraging online tools as much as needed. I was caught off guard because I was never told about this setup before this interview, and did not have time to clear my browser history and chatGPT history. Plus I wasn't sure how me googling the code for LRU cache directly would affect my interview score because that would have ended up being a <= 10 min. activity. ( Note: My chatGPT history had a lot of personal medical questions leading up to this interview). I told him I know an OrderedDict can be used to do a LRU cache in latest versions of Python and I didn't want to ask Google or ChatGPT the exact interview question directly. He said "ok" and I assumed (incorrectly?) that he was agreeing with my hesitations on chatGPT/googling-ing the direct answer. So I proceeded to only get the API for OrderedDict and somehow used that to finish the LRU cache with 10 min. time left for questions at the end. That is, I never searched for the question directly. The interviewed did say "since you got a decent solution, I can sell you on the company" when I asked about the company culture at the end. So I assumed it was a "pass." The next day I got a generic "After careful consideration, we have decided not to proceed further with your application at this time. While we recognize your skills and qualifications, our current needs and role requirements led us to this decision" from the HR that I never spoke to once during the whole process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Implement an LRU cache (least recently used cache).
      1 Answer
      4

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