The interview process is widely documented:

• Gatekeeping: "Do you know how to code?" interview
• Two "pair programming" (code challenge) interviews - these were LC easy
• One "Life Story" interview
• Plus a bunch of back and forth with the recruiter

Interviewing on the precipice of a recession is never a fun place to be, but my current company was laying people off and cut our 401(k) match, so the signs were there that staying in my current job wouldn't necessarily be a sure thing either.

The entire interview process took about six weeks. I got a verbal offer, negotiated a little, and then was told I'd get a written offer in about 48 hours. It took over a month.

During that time, I looked on Blind and discovered many people were in the same boat. Existing employees told us not to worry; it was just due to a compensation overhaul that was happening.

Time ticked by. We all kept waiting, developing ulcers. Then news started to trickle in: there's a hiring "slowdown." People started getting their offers rescinded. Shopify pulled all but Staff+ job postings off its website.

I got my written offer and accepted. I hope I made the right choice. I shut down my job search after I got the verbal offer and didn't feel like going through the rigmarole again. If I'd had other competing offers, I probably would have accepted one of those.

The initial gatekeeping interview focused on hash/dictionary data structures. I don't recall the specific topic of the first technical interview, but it also seemed to heavily feature hash-based concepts. The second interview covered basic object-oriented programming.

I would recommend brushing up on modulo arithmetic, sets, and fundamental data structures. The interviews were quite straightforward, and I performed well in them. I believe this contributed to receiving a written offer in the end.