Shopify

Data Engineer Interview Experience - Toronto, Ontario

March 1, 2016

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through LinkedIn.

After a week, I received an email to set up a telephonic interview within the following week.

The interviewer was very friendly and enthusiastic while discussing the role and opportunity.

Questions

Q: What do you know about Shopify?

Q: Briefly describe your current projects.

Q: What was the maximum size of data that you have analyzed so far?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Shopify Data Engineer role in Toronto, Ontario.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral0%

Negative33%

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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