Shopify

Software Developer Interview Experience - Canada

September 17, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Given 3 online challenges to complete.

One is an easy logic and aptitude test.

One is a coding challenge (similar to LeetCode Easy).

One is a project challenge intended to be completed on GitHub.

Questions

Coding challenge: Given a 2D array of stock prices for different companies over 7 days. Find the 3 top companies with the highest averages.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 79 interview experiences for the Shopify Software Developer role in Canada.

Success Rate

35%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive58%

Neutral20%

Negative22%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Shopify's Software Developer 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