Three stage interview. First with recruiter, next with manager and finally tech interview with developer. The interviewers were very friendly and the interview process was very smooth and the tech questions were not difficult.
Overall decent but not open to discussing salary negotiations. Very misleading offer, counting benefits into full compensation package. Never seen that done before. Felt like I was lowballed. Also the 3 year stock options were presented as a bonus.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopify (Ottawa, ON) in Nov 2021
Interview
Contains a challenging project when submitting the application. About 2 weeks after the deadline the hr reached out to me and assign 2 interviews. I got the offer about 2 - 3 weeks after the final interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st - The Life Story. Quite relaxed during this round. The interviewer is very nice and willing to listen to my story, don't need to prepare anything just simply share your experience with the recruiter and make them feel you are a good coworker.
2nd - tech interview, first need to represent an individual project you have done before, better with a demo and ppt for clear illustrate. then followed with a pair programming problem, you're assigned with a relatively simple front-end problem to code, and was allowed to communicate with the recruiter and search google for some API functions. The interviewers were also very nice and patient.
