Shopify·Software Engineer

Shopify Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started in a different way: I had to submit a PR in one of their public repositories solving a programming problem to qualify for the actual interviews.

Once selected, the real interviews followed a straightforward three-round structure.

First was an OA with two parts: a couple of easy CoderPad coding questions, then a logical reasoning round with forty questions in thirty minutes. After that I did pair programming with an engineer on a medium-level coding question, but it leaned more on how I designed the solution and explained my thinking end-to-end, including edge cases. AI tools were allowed during the work, as long as I could clearly explain the rationale.

The last step was a life story behavioral interview focused on motivation and

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