Shopify

Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experience - United States

February 15, 2022

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Everyone in the process was super nice and professional.

It was pretty standard for most tech companies, with an introductory interview followed by a life story and technical interview.

Some of the nicest interview people I’ve met.

Questions

Why do you want to work at Shopify?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Shopify Site Reliability Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Shopify's interview process for their Site Reliability Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral0%

Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Shopify's Site Reliability Engineer interview process in United States.

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