J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Shopify en avr. 2021
Entretien
They ask for attending an online coding excercise pairing with one of their engineers, which is weird doing this before even doing a brief intro phone screening.
The coding excercise was actually enjoyable, the engineer was nice to talk about.
After ten days you need to write to the recruiter to excplicitly ask for the outcome, and they reply even like if you are bothering theme.
Wors experience ever, if this how theur recruiting process work, I can imagine all the rest.
You should respect people.
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coding excercise useful to determine problem solving skills
typical interview process, one round with hr. followed by a 75 min coding interview pair programming with one of the engineers. In the coding interview it was encouraged to use ai.
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create a autocomplete system for search based on a list of search frequencies.
There was a first round with hr followed by a 1hour interview, use of AI was encouraged. Interviewer was not very knowledgeable and I had to discover a solution that she understands
The interview was intense and definitely exceeded my expectations. The technical rounds were particularly challenging, but I felt prepared. One of the system design questions was about creating a webhook delivery system with various complexities, and I was relieved because I had explored that exact topic on PracHub just days before. After tackling some coding problems, I faced some behavioral questions that tested my thought process. Overall, the experience was demanding, but I was thrilled to receive an offer, which I happily accepted.
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Question 1
Design a webhook delivery system that retries on failure with exponential backoff. Cover idempotency, ordering guarantees, dead-letter queues, and how you'd handle a downstream consumer that's been offline for hours.