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Hey,
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review. We really appreciate the time and effort people put into our application and interview process, and I’m sorry to hear things didn’t come together for you this time.
While I don’t know the details of your particular case, I can assure you that our process is definitely not designed to ‘weed out' candidates on the Autism Spectrum. On the contrary, we’ve put a lot of thought and care into creating a process that includes people with a wide range of abilities and backgrounds.
We’re dedicated to ensuring that our interview process is as accessible as possible because we know that diversity of thought makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking. We really value people who bring new perspectives to our teams! We back those values up with action, by doing things like ensuring all recruiters and managers hiring for the first time go through unconscious bias training and through maintaining an internal inclusion department that partners with the business and HR to ensure we are working towards reducing the risk of barriers and bias for top talent from diverse backgrounds.
Those are just a few examples of the steps we’ve taken create a more inclusive hiring process but there’s a lot more to do - creating a recruitment process that works for everyone is no easy task! We’re always looking for ways to improve. If there’s something that we can do to make our application and interview process more accessible to any individual candidate they only need to let us know! Candidates should feel safe to mention any barriers they may be facing when they reach out to us, or discuss such things with the recruiter they are dealing with. We genuinely want to give as many people as possible the chance to demonstrate how they could contribute to our team!
Once again, thanks for taking the time to apply and for leaving a review. Also know that there are a lot of people doing amazing work at Shopify today who weren’t successful on their first application, so I hope you won’t hesitate to give us another shot in the future (and if you do, please don’t hesitate to let us know if there are any particular things we can do to better accommodate you during the interview process).