Shopify

Data Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

September 1, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

The process included several parts:

Recruiter screening
Life story
SQL pair programming
Technical deep dive
Problem solving

The entire process took me approximately two months, but things are booked at your own pace.

Questions

During the technical deep dive, they will ask you what you would do differently.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Shopify Data Engineer role in Canada.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Shopify's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in Canada is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive83%

Neutral0%

Negative17%

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