Shopify

Senior Frontend Developer Interview Experience

February 1, 2021

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online and was given a 1-hour online coding screen interview with a developer.

The interviewer asked me to read the question on CoderPad and ask if I had any questions.

The question did not define highly specific input and output formats, so I had to ask for those from the interviewer.

Unlike most interviews that strive for correctness, this interview was more focused on testing object-oriented design skills and TDD. For example, I initially proposed outputting the answer as tuples instead of objects, but the interviewer pushed me towards creating objects without much further direction.

I didn't realize this was what they were looking for until I received the rejection email. I was pretty shocked because I finished the whole interview 15 minutes early, didn't receive any negative feedback from the interviewer, and was able to solve the problem without struggling.

The appointment email actually said, "No need to prepare" for the first interview, but it seems there were more dimensions to it than advertised.

Your code will be required to compile and run in CoderPad, and you will be running your code against predetermined tests that you have to copy and paste into the terminal. So, make sure you actually know all the APIs you are going to use.

Hopefully, other developers will be able to read this to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Good luck, everyone.

Questions

Given a list of strings with arbitrary packing constraints, output a list of boxes filled with items.

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Interview Statistics

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Shopify's interview process for their Senior Frontend Developer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Shopify Work Experiences

Great company, if overly bureaucratic

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

August 21, 2023

Pros: Your Shopify experience will depend heavily on where you land in the company, but I found it to be a highly supportive, caring environment with exceptional coworkers and very good pay, comparative to everywhere except the elite FAANG titans. Work-life balance is stellar, outside occasional deadline crunches. The company cares about the right things and generally does right by its people (even during layoffs).

Cons: The only two main cons of Shopify are: 1. It may not pay as well as the elite tech giants (although it still pays very well, in my opinion). 2. There's a lot of bureaucracy. Not as bad as some companies, but there's way too much sending things three levels up the chain and waiting to get the inevitable swoop-and-poop from the execs, and then having to rework everything right before the deadline.

Great company, if overly bureaucratic

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

August 21, 2023

Pros: Your Shopify experience will depend heavily on where you land in the company, but I found it to be a highly supportive, caring environment with exceptional coworkers and very good pay, comparative to everywhere except the elite FAANG titans. Work-life balance is stellar, outside occasional deadline crunches. The company cares about the right things and generally does right by its people (even during layoffs).

Cons: The only two main cons of Shopify are: 1. It may not pay as well as the elite tech giants (although it still pays very well, in my opinion). 2. There's a lot of bureaucracy. Not as bad as some companies, but there's way too much sending things three levels up the chain and waiting to get the inevitable swoop-and-poop from the execs, and then having to rework everything right before the deadline.

Pleasure Working, Growing Pains

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Pros: The culture is really shared among teams and people. It was a real pleasure to work there for a few years.

Cons: The company was growing, so it comes with its downsides. But if you are agile, you shouldn't be too worried about that. It also comes with a lot of opportunities.

Pleasure Working, Growing Pains

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Pros: The culture is really shared among teams and people. It was a real pleasure to work there for a few years.

Cons: The company was growing, so it comes with its downsides. But if you are agile, you shouldn't be too worried about that. It also comes with a lot of opportunities.

Great learnings, confused management

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Pros: - Very smart people to learn from and be inspired by. - Exposure to huge-scale systems. - Not afraid to change and experiment with new technologies. - Nice salaries (for Engineering, at least). - Decent perks. - No micromanagement, flexible work hours. - D90 (work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days). - Unlimited vacation.

Cons: Senior Leadership (C-level and direct reports) seem to get bored of the status quo once or twice a year and completely change everything. Often, you might change teams because of a re-org, and this may or may not impact your performance review progress. Promotions were once frequent, but now seem hard to come by.

Great learnings, confused management

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Pros: - Very smart people to learn from and be inspired by. - Exposure to huge-scale systems. - Not afraid to change and experiment with new technologies. - Nice salaries (for Engineering, at least). - Decent perks. - No micromanagement, flexible work hours. - D90 (work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days). - Unlimited vacation.

Cons: Senior Leadership (C-level and direct reports) seem to get bored of the status quo once or twice a year and completely change everything. Often, you might change teams because of a re-org, and this may or may not impact your performance review progress. Promotions were once frequent, but now seem hard to come by.

Great company, if overly bureaucratic

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

August 21, 2023

Pros: Your Shopify experience will depend heavily on where you land in the company, but I found it to be a highly supportive, caring environment with exceptional coworkers and very good pay, comparative to everywhere except the elite FAANG titans. Work-life balance is stellar, outside occasional deadline crunches. The company cares about the right things and generally does right by its people (even during layoffs).

Cons: The only two main cons of Shopify are: 1. It may not pay as well as the elite tech giants (although it still pays very well, in my opinion). 2. There's a lot of bureaucracy. Not as bad as some companies, but there's way too much sending things three levels up the chain and waiting to get the inevitable swoop-and-poop from the execs, and then having to rework everything right before the deadline.

4.0
Great company, if overly bureaucratic
Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee
August 21, 2023
Pros: Your Shopify experience will depend heavily on where you land in the company, but I found it to be a highly supportive, caring environment with exceptional coworkers and very good pay, comparative to everywhere except the elite FAANG titans. Work-life balance is stellar, outside occasional deadline crunches. The company cares about the right things and generally does right by its people (even during layoffs).
Cons: The only two main cons of Shopify are: 1. It may not pay as well as the elite tech giants (although it still pays very well, in my opinion). 2. There's a lot of bureaucracy. Not as bad as some companies, but there's way too much sending things three levels up the chain and waiting to get the inevitable swoop-and-poop from the execs, and then having to rework everything right before the deadline.

Pleasure Working, Growing Pains

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Pros: The culture is really shared among teams and people. It was a real pleasure to work there for a few years.

Cons: The company was growing, so it comes with its downsides. But if you are agile, you shouldn't be too worried about that. It also comes with a lot of opportunities.

5.0
Pleasure Working, Growing Pains
Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 25, 2021
Pros: The culture is really shared among teams and people. It was a real pleasure to work there for a few years.
Cons: The company was growing, so it comes with its downsides. But if you are agile, you shouldn't be too worried about that. It also comes with a lot of opportunities.

Great learnings, confused management

Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Pros: - Very smart people to learn from and be inspired by. - Exposure to huge-scale systems. - Not afraid to change and experiment with new technologies. - Nice salaries (for Engineering, at least). - Decent perks. - No micromanagement, flexible work hours. - D90 (work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days). - Unlimited vacation.

Cons: Senior Leadership (C-level and direct reports) seem to get bored of the status quo once or twice a year and completely change everything. Often, you might change teams because of a re-org, and this may or may not impact your performance review progress. Promotions were once frequent, but now seem hard to come by.

4.0
Great learnings, confused management
Senior Frontend Developer • Former Employee
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
May 16, 2023
Pros: - Very smart people to learn from and be inspired by. - Exposure to huge-scale systems. - Not afraid to change and experiment with new technologies. - Nice salaries (for Engineering, at least). - Decent perks. - No micromanagement, flexible work hours. - D90 (work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days). - Unlimited vacation.
Cons: Senior Leadership (C-level and direct reports) seem to get bored of the status quo once or twice a year and completely change everything. Often, you might change teams because of a re-org, and this may or may not impact your performance review progress. Promotions were once frequent, but now seem hard to come by.

Shopify Interview Questions

Walking Robot Simulation

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.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

LRU Cache

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.

Design In-Memory File System

Implement an in-memory file system with basic operations like creating directories, adding files, and listing contents. The file system should support path-based navigation.

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