Shopify·Data Scientist

Shopify Data Scientist interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early rounds were a fairly classic progression, but the technical part was more subtle than I expected.

I began with an initial call with a data science manager, and then I went into pair programming that combined SQL and Python. The coding round didn’t feel like “just run queries”—it forced me to look closely at the tables and make sure I understood what the prompt was truly asking.

In SQL, the tricky part was choosing the right joins and getting the results to match how they expected the data to behave, and it showed up even when I had a strong SQL background. After the pair programming, the process went deeper with additional case study and data interpretation style work, then a final

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