how to get hired at shopify

happy Tuesday it is 6:30 a.m. so five,minutes out from work had it done early,today,think that I might be the first into the,office it's really dark from here the,lights are turning on,we are,this is my office everyone else has,monitors and stuff but they haven't,gotten me a monitor yet one of the top,perks but working for Shopify is just,food this is breakfast this morning,think we've got some breakfast burritos,some chia pudding fruit salad and a,smoothie of some kind as well as my chai,tea okay home from Shopify I'm pretty,tired I've been there all day I'm going,to lie down for a little bit maybe do,some catch-up I need to promo,yesterday's video because I didn't do,that at work and then maybe we'll do,something with my evening,I,so been a little overwhelming I've been,a little a little tired but it's really,fun work it's a lot better than school,but speaking of school I still have some,school work to do and I really need to,do that so maybe that's what I'll do,with my evening so I haven't been,shooting a lot of footage these last few,days for the vlog and the reason being,is that my life has has been crazy I've,been going from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 9:30,p.m. pretty consistently working the,full time a combination of Shopify and,school because I'm working full time as,well as studying for my exams right now,and I'm running so things are pretty,crazy and I guess that vlog is the first,thing to go,I'm still trying to release daily,content though and this should only be,for a few days but I figured because I,didn't really record a whole lot today I,want to talk about a question that a lot,of people have asked me recently which,is which is John how did you get hired,at Shopify right because Shopify is a,company that primarily hires University,students for the position that I'm in,which is a software developer intern,positions so typically you're looking at,a student in university occupying that,position and yet I occupy that position,last year on the summer of eleven and,this year in the summer of Grade twelve,as a high school student so how how did,I get there so for this we kind of have,to rewind back to 2015 and in 2015 I,attended a hackathon actually we have to,go back to this summer of 2015 my first,hackathon ever I honestly don't remember,what it was called yeah no I'm just I'm,drawing a blank but it was it was a high,school student only hackathon held at,the University of water,and I built the project with my friend,Alex Foley who called up mutation and,measured the alpha waves in your brain,using this meditation headband it's kind,of cool we didn't win anything but what,I did win is there is shelf buy,sponsored the event and so they ran a,little challenge which was to see if you,could have a program that could run in,exactly 40 seconds without using any,timing mechanism so basically write a,program that does a certain number of,calculations in my case I think is just,doing like a bunch of trigonometric,calculations repeatedly like millions of,times and then you kind of get as close,as we can to 40 I got pretty close I,think I caught like forty point two,because there's a limited time frame for,this as well I think we had like 15,minutes or 20 minutes so I I did pretty,well I came second I think and I want to,Shopify t-shirt and I also got to talk,to some of the developer advocates at,Shopify and that's the first,introduction that I had to Shopify so,fast forward a few months and I've,applied to and gotten intact the North,which is one of the biggest hackathons I,believe in the world definitely the,biggest in Canada held at the University,of Waterloo again but this time not just,for high school students but open to to,anybody and Shopify shop I was,sponsoring pack the North so shelf I,sponsored Hackman North as well as the,previous one and I talked to people at,shelf I there and I said hey do you hire,interns and they said yeah we do,I said you hire high school interns and,they said I don't know maybe and I,remember I when I talked to the Shopify,people at the first hackathon one of the,guys said yeah I started during high,school so I realized hey I could start,you in high school,so so after those two hackathons kind of,filed that away for a little bit and,then my uncle who is a financial planner,he was helping one of the guys who was,on board with Shopify early on had a,bunch of equity and then they went,public and then all of a sudden he has a,lot of money helping him manage his,portfolio,and I came up in conversation somehow,and this guy said hey connect me with,this guy I want to talk to him and so we,connected we talked a little bit just,kind of chatted and we talked a few,times just a bit kind of like life in,general I guess really cool guy really,really cool guy and eventually he was,out of Shopify event where the internal,coordinator I think at the time was that,and so he mentioned me to her and she,said hey give me an email address I'll,shoot him an email so she shot me an,email and we talked and then I did my,first interview with her which was just,a basic little tell me your story tell,me about your life and I think that went,pretty well so then I did a technical,interview online with a developer I,showed one of my projects that was,computing the convex hull in 3d which is,which is kind of neat there is an,algorithm where you can extend a simple,convex hull to arbitrary dimensions and,I just extended it from the typical case,which is two dimensions to three,dimensions and then I rendered it using,a game environment so you actually solve,a 3d polygon fun fact though that,program only works like 90% of the time,10% of the time it would crash so when I,clicked run and this guy was watching,even though all my code I think is,correct like I still don't know why when,I click run and this guy was watching,there's a 10% chance that my program,would have just would just died and it,wouldn't have made it but luckily it,worked and so I passed that interview,pretty well I think and well I made it,to the next one where I chatted with the,engineering lead who I had met at hack,the north and basically at that point I,was I was already in I can I could tell,that they were going to offer me the,position and but we chatted for a few,minutes there's a pretty informal,interview and then he said yeah so when,you come on we're going to be in a,different office and I was like,hi come on hey and then yeah the extend,is an offer to me and I assigned the,offer so that's kind of the story that,did my introduction to Shopify and it's,the company that I've definitely had the,the richest history with over the past,couple of years and I've connected with,a lot a lot of people there so yeah I've,got a lot of shelf buy stories but I,think this is a good one to start off,with over the summer I might tell a few,of the other ones but just kind of,introducing how I got hired at Shopify I,think might be valuable to some people,so that's going to that's going to,conclude it for the day I'm going to try,and get more footage tomorrow but,tomorrow is going to be a crazy day as,well and then Thursday is probably my,craziest day of the week because I have,two exams followed by a physio,appointment followed by a dinner at the,US Consul General so that's going to be,wild and then Friday should be like easy,so looking forward to Friday I just got,to make it through the next two days so,thanks for all your support thank you,for watching stay tuned

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