Shopify Data Scientist interview experience

After a year of rejections, I was carrying a lot of doubt into anything new, and just knowing there was an interview coming made me feel tense.

I mostly remember the emotional side: how hard it was to stay confident, even without any detailed agenda shared yet. I didn’t have a clear picture of what the format would be or how the technical rounds would run, so my mind filled in gaps and that only made the waiting feel worse.

I left it feeling like I was fighting my own expectations more than anything else. The biggest thing that stayed with me was how much the process timing and uncertainty