Shopify·Software Engineer

Shopify Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with pair programming that felt unusually playful at first: I navigated a grid tied to a Roomba-style scenario.

The interviewer was eager and made the collaboration vibe obvious, and I finished early and left feeling like it went well. After that, I still expected things to be straightforward, but the next stage immediately changed the tone.

For the Growth Path interview, it went extremely poorly. The interviewer showed up late, then seemed to have an edge. They asked whether I had read the company materials ahead of time, and once I confirmed I had, I tried to steer the conversation with questions back to them. Every time I asked, I got redirected to the documents instead of an actual discussion, and

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