Shopify

SWE Intern Interview Experience - Canada

September 12, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

The initial recruiter call for the life story was a conversation.

Afterwards, I was invited to a project presentation and a combined technical (OOD/LeetCode) round.

AI and Googling were allowed during the interview. Generally, it was pretty easy.

Questions

Design a warehouse shipping system.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Shopify SWE Intern role in Canada.

Success Rate

100%

Pass Rate

Shopify's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in Canada is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Shopify's SWE Intern 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