Usual Shopify Interview

• 1 code screening
• 1 life story
• 1 design
• 2 code pairing

I have nothing but positive things to say about my interviews. The first step was the code screening. I was given a very easy problem, and my interviewer was very clear about his expectations. It took me 10 minutes to finish.

After that, I had the life story interview with a recruiter. We just talked about my past experience for an hour; it was a nice chat.

After the life story, I made it to the last three interviews: a system design interview called “deep dive,” where you will discuss with the interviewer the architecture of a system you know really well. You should prepare for this interview, since you will only have one hour, and you’ll want to explain your system of choice very clearly.

Then I had two pair programming sessions where I was given two different problems to solve. It’s not a requirement to finish your solution before the end of the interview, but I was able to finish both problems and write tests. I got an offer the next day.

Regular coding questions, LeetCode level from easy to medium.