Shopify

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Toronto, Ontario

January 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview was a one-on-one conducted via Google Meet.

We engaged in pair programming to implement a robot behavior.

We started with a simple behavior and gradually moved to a more complex one.

The Vive controller was comfortable to use, and the interviewer was familiar with the technology.

Questions

They asked me to implement robot behavior.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Shopify Software Engineer role in Toronto, Ontario.

Success Rate

31%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive62%

Neutral15%

Negative23%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Shopify's Software Engineer interview process in Toronto, 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