Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto più di una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Shopify (Toronto, ON) nel mese di dic 2016
Colloquio
1. Lunch with a lead developer after internal employee reference
2. Life story with Recruiter
3. Technical deep dive with a senior developer (brought in my own project to talk about the challenges, how it was made, what I learned, etc)
4. Technical life story with another developer - How I got started in development, my career progression, opinions on technical stacks, etc.
5. Problem solving interview designing a system. (e.g. let's say we want to build a photo sharing site...)
6. Peer programming with a senior developer - Implement a shopping cart system.
Very open-ended, conversational style. Very positive experience overall.
typical interview process, one round with hr. followed by a 75 min coding interview pair programming with one of the engineers. In the coding interview it was encouraged to use ai.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
create a autocomplete system for search based on a list of search frequencies.
There was a first round with hr followed by a 1hour interview, use of AI was encouraged. Interviewer was not very knowledgeable and I had to discover a solution that she understands
The interview was intense and definitely exceeded my expectations. The technical rounds were particularly challenging, but I felt prepared. One of the system design questions was about creating a webhook delivery system with various complexities, and I was relieved because I had explored that exact topic on PracHub just days before. After tackling some coding problems, I faced some behavioral questions that tested my thought process. Overall, the experience was demanding, but I was thrilled to receive an offer, which I happily accepted.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Design a webhook delivery system that retries on failure with exponential backoff. Cover idempotency, ordering guarantees, dead-letter queues, and how you'd handle a downstream consumer that's been offline for hours.