Shopify

Staff Front End Engineer Interview Experience - Toronto, Canada

June 1, 2022

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

One Tech Assessment, followed by one Life Story, followed by one Tech, one Current Project, and one System Design interview on the same day. Very easy interview, no prep needed. The Life Story is just a walk-through of previous projects.

Questions

Design an LRU cache.

Front-end system design focuses only on FE performance, accessibility, and UX design. This excludes cache, data stores, or BE architecture discussions.

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Interview Statistics

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Shopify's interview process for their Staff Front End Engineer roles in Toronto, Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Shopify's Staff Front End Engineer interview process in Toronto, Canada.

Shopify Work Experiences

Not my best rodeo

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Toronto, Canada

Pros: * They offered a competitive salary * Fully remote * Unlimited vacation

Cons: The work culture was awful. People were really not the best to work with. It was full of people full of themselves and not the best at propagating information. Even when directly asked, it was always an air of 'look it up' instead of being helpful. Had to intervene and escalate due an engineer being racist to another engineer. Had my first ever need to raise my voice at work as someone was being aggressive with me and not respectful. The codebase is kind of a disaster. It took away my enjoyment of coding.

Not my best rodeo

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Toronto, Canada

Pros: * They offered a competitive salary * Fully remote * Unlimited vacation

Cons: The work culture was awful. People were really not the best to work with. It was full of people full of themselves and not the best at propagating information. Even when directly asked, it was always an air of 'look it up' instead of being helpful. Had to intervene and escalate due an engineer being racist to another engineer. Had my first ever need to raise my voice at work as someone was being aggressive with me and not respectful. The codebase is kind of a disaster. It took away my enjoyment of coding.

Most flexible company

Data Science Engineer • Current Employee

Toronto, Canada

January 19, 2021

Pros: Cares about you and supports you, great salary.

Cons: Many changes in the organization at frequent intervals.

Most flexible company

Data Science Engineer • Current Employee

Toronto, Canada

January 19, 2021

Pros: Cares about you and supports you, great salary.

Cons: Many changes in the organization at frequent intervals.

Great freelance opportunity

Web Developer • Current Employee

Toronto, Canada

October 12, 2021

Pros: Remote working and freelance opportunities

Cons: Finding high-paying clients to work with.

Great freelance opportunity

Web Developer • Current Employee

Toronto, Canada

October 12, 2021

Pros: Remote working and freelance opportunities

Cons: Finding high-paying clients to work with.

Not my best rodeo

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Toronto, Canada

Pros: * They offered a competitive salary * Fully remote * Unlimited vacation

Cons: The work culture was awful. People were really not the best to work with. It was full of people full of themselves and not the best at propagating information. Even when directly asked, it was always an air of 'look it up' instead of being helpful. Had to intervene and escalate due an engineer being racist to another engineer. Had my first ever need to raise my voice at work as someone was being aggressive with me and not respectful. The codebase is kind of a disaster. It took away my enjoyment of coding.

1.0
Not my best rodeo
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Toronto, Canada
July 28, 2025
Pros: * They offered a competitive salary * Fully remote * Unlimited vacation
Cons: The work culture was awful. People were really not the best to work with. It was full of people full of themselves and not the best at propagating information. Even when directly asked, it was always an air of 'look it up' instead of being helpful. Had to intervene and escalate due an engineer being racist to another engineer. Had my first ever need to raise my voice at work as someone was being aggressive with me and not respectful. The codebase is kind of a disaster. It took away my enjoyment of coding.

Most flexible company

Data Science Engineer • Current Employee

Toronto, Canada

January 19, 2021

Pros: Cares about you and supports you, great salary.

Cons: Many changes in the organization at frequent intervals.

5.0
Most flexible company
Data Science Engineer • Current Employee
Toronto, Canada
January 19, 2021
Pros: Cares about you and supports you, great salary.
Cons: Many changes in the organization at frequent intervals.

Great freelance opportunity

Web Developer • Current Employee

Toronto, Canada

October 12, 2021

Pros: Remote working and freelance opportunities

Cons: Finding high-paying clients to work with.

5.0
Great freelance opportunity
Web Developer • Current Employee
Toronto, Canada
October 12, 2021
Pros: Remote working and freelance opportunities
Cons: Finding high-paying clients to work with.

Shopify Interview Questions

Walking Robot Simulation

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.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

LRU Cache

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.

Design In-Memory File System

Implement an in-memory file system with basic operations like creating directories, adding files, and listing contents. The file system should support path-based navigation.

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