Shopify Software Engineer interview experience

The pair programming session focused on building a small functional feature—something closer to what you’d actually ship—where the interviewer encouraged me to use flexible tools and approach. I’d explain what I was doing, we’d talk through tradeoffs, and then we’d discuss what I’d add for testing and how I’d handle maintainability if it were in production.

Along with that, there were other checks that felt lighter than some of the more classic timed puzzles: cognitive or aptitude assessments showed up earlier, and after the coding work I had a separate life story style conversation where I