shopify life story interview what to expect

Hello everybody. And,welcome to another,,The YouTube video. So,in today's video, I'm,going to share with you,my Shopify interview,experience. Now, the,reason I'm making this,video is because,Shopify is a really,cool company, actually,really enjoyed,interviewing there. And,I would have loved to,work there. The only,reason I did not was,because I took a job,offer at Microsoft,instead. Now, full,disclosure and,transparency here at,both of these positions,were intern positions.,So I was offered from,Shopify, a backend,developer intern,position. And instead I,decided to go to,Microsoft as a software,engineer intern. Now,I'm sure these are,pretty well, the same,things. I mean, the,titles are not that,relevant, especially,for an intern position,,but anyways, I really,enjoyed my time at,Shopify. I was actually,there in person. This,was probably actually,over a year ago that I,did these interviews.,And we'll, I just,wanted to share my,experience in case any,of you are considering,working there. I, and,talk about what I had,to go through and how,it was different from,my interviews at,Microsoft and other,tech companies. So with,that said, let's get,into the video after a,quick word from our,sponsor. Now, even,though Shopify didn't,give me your typical,algorithmic style,interview. I still need,to prepare and use algo,expert the sponsor of,this video to do so.,Algo expert is the best,platform to use, to,prepare for your,software engineering,interviews. And not,only has over 110,coding interview,practice questions, but,also has something,called systems. Expert,systems expert teaches,the fundamentals of,system design with,comprehensive video,explanations, real code,examples and practice,system design,questions. It covers,all the important,concepts you need to,know to ease your,system design,interviews like,caching, proxies, load,balancers, hashing, and,over 20 more important,topics.,After mastering these,,you can move on to the,systems design quiz to,test your knowledge,,and then head over to,the practice system,design questions where,you can learn how to,design large scale,systems like Google,drive Netflix and many,others get started,using aligo expert in,system expert by,hitting the link in the,description and using,the code tech with Tim,for a discount on the,platform. So I'm going,to try to keep this,video fairly,structured. I'm going,to talk about the,following. So first the,application process.,Second, my remote,interview, third, my,in-person interview.,And finally my offer. I,will try to talk about,some details about the,offers, like the,compensation and the,benefits and all of,that, but I don't,actually have a hard,copy of the offer or I,would have attached it,to the video and you,guys could have looked,at it for yourself, but,anyways, let's talk,about the first thing,,which was the,application process.,So how did I apply to,Shopify? How did I,actually get these,interviews? So first of,all, the resume I use,to apply, I actually,have a video where I,went through and kind,of reviewed it and,talked about it. So,I'll leave a link to,that video in the,description. I'll try,to remember to add a,card, someone leave a,comment because I,almost guarantee you,I'll forget to do that.,Uh, but anyways, you,can look at my resume,from that video. So I'm,not going to discuss,that here, but the time,that I applying for,this job, this was,November, 2019. I was,in my second year of,university, just,wrapping up my first,semester. And I was,looking for an,internship in the,summer of 2020. So the,time you kind of apply,for those would have,been, you know, like,November, October, at,least for these kind of,big tech companies.,So I saw that Shopify,was close to me. I was,actually located in,Ottawa at the current,time and Shopify as,home office or,headquarters or,Homebase or whatever,you call it is located,in Ottawa. They're,actually a Canadian,company, one of the,largest Canadian,companies and actually,one of the fastest,growing ones as well.,So I went on the,Shopify website. I saw,it, there was a bunch,of different positions,and one of the,positions that stood,out to me, it was a,backend developer,intern and they also,had front end developer,intern. They had like,software architect.,They had like a bunch,of other ones as well,,all kinds of web dev,related stuff. And I,wasn't that good at web,development. I just,really was good at,Python to be honest and,like a little bit of,front end stuff. Uh, so,I applied for backend,developer anyways, it,took probably three,months, two and a half,months, three months,for them to actually,get back to me.,So funny story I,applied to sent my,resume in. I had to,fill out some,information about,myself as well. There,was some like,supplementary thing,,nothing crazy, but you,had to type in like,some paragraphs and,answer some questions,and stuff, but no,coding assessment or,exam or anything like,that. Anyways, I was,actually in Seattle on,January 30th when I had,my Microsoft interviews,and funny story about,two hours after I,finished my Microsoft,interviews. Again, this,was before the,pandemic, when you,could travel. And all,of that, I actually,received an email from,Shopify saying that I,had an interview,scheduled four days,later. So that was fun.,I came back from,Seattle the next day.,And then three days,later I had my,interview at Shopify.,So the first interview,was a remote interview,and this is what they,called a life story,interview.,So they said you don't,need to prepare for,this at all. There's,going to be no coding,or technical questions.,We're just going to ask,you some behavioral,questions. We want to,get to know you and,just see if you'd be a,good cultural fit. And,I definitely was not,alive. Uh, I had my,first interview. I,don't know what time it,was at, but like on,February 4th or,something like that.,Uh, and I just got,asked a bunch of,behavioral questions.,The first ones I got,asked was kinda, you,know, like, what do you,like to do in your free,time? What are your,hobbies? What do you,enjoy? You know, why'd,you pick this school,,whatever how'd, you get,into coding. And then,after to kind of the,first, maybe 20 minutes,of just some warming up,nice questions,,friendly, get to know,you kind of stuff.,They started asking me,your kind of standard,questions. Like, why do,you want this job? You,know, how much,experience you have in,this programming,language, whatever it,may be. And I kind of,took this as like them,trying to filter people,out. So they didn't,bring too many people,to the onsite if they,weren't kind of worthy,of being there. And,unfortunately, I can't,remember much more,about that interview,,but I remember it,lasted about an hour.,It was really casual.,Um, honestly had a fun,time talking with the,person. And then I,guess maybe a day later,I received an email,that said, Hey, we'd,love to bring you to,onsite interviews. You,know, your scheduled,date is this whatever.,So I actually walked to,my onsite interview.,Uh, it wasn't too cold.,Fortunately, when I,went there and on my,on-site interview, I,met with two,developers.,So I went to the,Shopify office, which,is actually really,cool. It's in downtown,Ottawa, it's in this,really big, massive,building. And they have,like a bunch of,different floors on,there. I walked in the,office, there's like,plants everywhere.,There's like computers.,They have like a,lounge. They had like,catering, like a bunch,of really, you know,,the stuff you would,expect that a big tech,company essentially.,And then I had my,interview with the two,devs. So what they said,was I should come,prepared with a coding,project that I had,worked on. They said, I,did not have to do,anything else. Just,bring some coding,project you had worked,on, on your laptop. The,devs are gonna sit with,you. You should know,the project in and out,and just walk them,through the project.,Talk about, you know,,like architectural,decisions, why you,decide to do specific,things, how it works,,all of that.,So fun story. If you,want to actually see,the project I worked,on, I did a live stream,two days before I had,this interview. We're,actually did pretty,well the entire,project. So I'll leave,a link to that project,or a link to that live,stream in the,descriptions. You can,check it out if you,want, but the basis,was, it was like a,little web app where,it, you sockets and,like multiple people,could log on and just,chat with each other.,And it would store all,of the message.,History, super simple,,nothing complex. And,like it just used,really sockets,sessions, really basic,JavaScript. And I think,it was like flask or,possibly Django,backend. Anyways, you,guys can check that out,for yourself. So I came,in with that project on,my laptop and what I,did is I just showed,them the project.,So the first 30,minutes, uh, there was,two devs, one who was a,senior developer, one,who was like a,relatively new,developer, had worked,there for like two,years. And they kind of,just sat behind me,,looked at my laptop and,just asked me to walk,through the project.,They asked me some,questions and I just,showed them the code,that I wrote. They,seemed relatively,impressed. And then,after probably about 30,minutes, I said, okay,,that's great. Now what,we want to do is we,want to actually ask,you a design question.,So rather than asking,me any technical coding,question, which they,told me, I wouldn't,get, they asked me a,kind of like object,oriented design,problem, or like a, I,don't even know how to,describe it, but,something where you,have to draw kind of,like a UML diagram and,talk about how you,would design a system,,not how I would code,out a specific,algorithmic problem.,So what they said is,we're building a store,and what we need is,photographers to sell,images to a vendor. So,people that are using,Shopify stores, uh,,they wanna be able to,hire photographers to,take, you know, images,of their, whatever,product, and then send,those images. And,anyways, that was kind,of the basis of the,problem. It was like,connecting,photographers with,Shopify vendors and,having them be able to,deliver some, uh, some,images of the product.,So there's a bunch of,requirements with that.,I won't get too much,into like what I did,for that question.,Cause it's really hard,to explain it without a,whiteboard. They have,this massive,whiteboard. We were in,like a private room and,I just started kind of,white boarding out the,question and drew like,a standard UML diagram,and kind of what my,design and structure,might be.,I just walked through,my solution. They asked,me a bunch of,questions. They,actually corrected me,on one or two small,things. We had a good,conversation and that,was pretty much it for,the interview. Then we,had like maybe five or,10 minutes left. They,asked me, you know,,your standard kind of,exiting questions.,Like, why do you want,this job? Uh, you know,,what do you think of,Shopify? Do you have,any questions for us,,blah, blah, blah,,whatever it may be. And,then that was it. And,then I went home and I,guess a few days later,,a week later they sent,me the offer. Now,,funny story, when they,gave me this offer,,they didn't actually,send me an email with,this offer. So me,saying sent is actually,incorrect. It was, I,remember it was like,11:00 AM and it was a,Friday or something.,And I received a phone,call from an unknown,number. So I just,picked up the phone and,I said, hello, you,know, Tim is speaking,whatever. And it was,actually someone from,Shopify that was,calling me. I was,really caught off,guard, was not prepared,for this phone call,,but anyways, they just,said, Hey, you know how,you doing whatever? And,then they told me, Hey,,we'd like to offer you,the job of backend,developer. Now this was,kind of sneaky on their,part because I had to,answer and tell them on,the phone pretty much,that I wasn't going to,accept the job because,I was going to take my,job offer from,Microsoft. But it was a,really kind of,difficult thing to say,to them. Right. Cause I,was on the phone with,them. I was talking,with someone, I,couldn't just send out,an easy email and say,,you know, thank you for,the opportunity,,whatever.,So anyways, I let them,kind of read out the,offer before I said,anything. And they,said, yeah, you know,,we're going to pay you.,I think it was $33 an,hour. It was like a,thousand dollar kind of,benefit. You get to,like build your own,little office or like,whatever. There was,like all these other,random benefits, kind,of like that too.,Anyways, they read all,that stuff out. And,then unfortunately I,had to tell them that I,wasn't going to be,accepting the offer,,but that I would love,to potentially,interview for another,term, if that was,something that was,allowed. So anyways,,all was good, very,respectful, whatever,they were totally fine,that I said that I sent,a little follow-up,email afterwards,saying, you know, thank,you for the opportunity. And that,was kinda my story,interviewing at,Shopify. Now the key,takeaways from this was,that I didn't have to,do a technical coding,question.,Like I had to do a,design question, but I,didn't actually have to,answer any like,algorithmic problem. In,fact, they don't do,that at Shopify at all,,from what those two,developers were telling,me, they said they'd,much rather learn kind,of how I think about a,system. They want to,have more abstract,things rather than just,potentially like a,memorized coding,problem that I could go,in there and just whip,out really quickly. And,they wanted to see how,I would design the,system. Cause that's,what I would be doing,on the day-to-day. I,would be making,decisions like that, of,course, with input of,other developers. But,that was kind of my key,takeaway from that was,that they asked me to,do a design problem as,an intern where usually,I thought you would get,like a technical coding,question. So that was,interesting to me.,I wanted to share that,with you. And I also,just wanted to say that,every single person I,talked to that Shopify,was absolutely amazing.,They were super nice.,The atmosphere was,great. Both of the,developers I talked to,,I asked them like, why,did they want to work,at Shopify? Or why are,they working at,Shopify? And they said,,it's just like a really,chill environment. They,really enjoy the work.,It's super impactful. A,company's growing super,quickly. And we're,moral of the story is I,would have worked there,a hundred percent if it,wasn't for the,Microsoft offer. So,anyways, I hope this,story was somewhat,interesting. I hope you,got some information,from this and that was,kind of all I wanted to,share. So if you guys,enjoyed this video,,make sure leave a, like,subscribe to the,channel. And of course,I will see you in,another,YouTube video..

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