Shopify

Software Developer Interview Experience - Ottawa, Ontario

October 30, 2024

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interviewer asked about my previous experience and why I wanted to work here.

We discussed my past experience with projects and why I decided to go into software.

It wasn't too difficult, but I think it was very subjective.

Questions

Tell me about yourself (life story)

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 23 interview experiences for the Shopify Software Developer role in Ottawa, Ontario.

Success Rate

35%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive65%

Neutral22%

Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Shopify's Software Developer interview process in Ottawa, 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.

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