Shopify Data Scientist interview experience

I ran into a repeated issue with communication: I often struggled to get email responses, and eventually the recruiter stopped responding entirely instead of formally ending the process.

Technically, the steps themselves focused on practical skills. In my rounds, I had to debug Python using an existing bad piece of code, make changes, and add tests, and the technical screen also leaned heavily into Python with an object-oriented + data-structures angle. Later conversations also felt like “data best practices” and product-sense style discussions rather than purely coding. Even though the