Shopify Software Engineer interview experience

It kicked off with an initial cognitive assessment, then moved into pair programming, and then into a virtual onsite that stacked multiple rounds: a second pair programming session, a technical deep dive, a system design discussion, and finally a life story interview. Throughout, the interviewers were engaged and professional, and they kept steering the conversations toward practical reasoning.

In the pairing sessions, the problems themselves weren’t theoretical puzzles—they felt like realistic engineering work, and the interviewers encouraged the use of AI while coding. I talked through