Shopify

Data Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

October 16, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first round is with a recruiter, followed by a senior engineer, and then a data engineer (pair programming round).

After this is the classic Shopify 'About You' round, which is 1 hour long.

Questions

window functions, self-join SQL

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Shopify Data Engineer role in Canada.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Shopify's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Shopify's Data Engineer interview process in Canada.

Shopify Interview Questions

Walking Robot Simulation

Medium

Simulate a robot's movement on an infinite grid based on a sequence of commands and obstacles. Determine the square of the robot's final Euclidean distance from the origin.

Arrays

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked ListsArraysDesign

Encode and Decode TinyURL

Medium

Design a system to shorten long URLs into tiny URLs and then retrieve the original URL from the shortened version. You need to implement both encoding and decoding functionalities.

ArraysStringsHash TableDesign