Shopify·Software Engineer

Shopify Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I felt like the technical part was manageable, but the end-to-end experience left a bad taste.

The OA questions and the interview questions themselves were relatively easy, but I felt disrespected across the process.

Previously I had applied and the OA had a confusing mistake, and when I reached out for help I ended up being ignored. This year I made it further and reached pair programming, where the problem was simple OOP. It felt broad, and I asked for specs like runtime expectations and how the use case distribution would look, but I didn’t get any real clarification. Even worse, there was a technical glitch where my changes didn’t get pushed even though both of us thought they

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