Comment by keithcarolus
10 hours ago
That Shopify employs 3,000 engineers is astounding.
I was rejected after a fairly basic ML interview at Shopify and when I asked for feedback I was told someday I could become a machine learning engineer.
I don’t think the interviewer read my resume or understood my responses as this was after working for several years in ML roles - staff applied ML and scientist.
So maybe that tells you something.
>I asked for feedback
Even if they gave you feedback I think you would have to take it with a pinch of salt.
Hiring decisions are more emotional than most people would admit.
Even an emotional feedback could be potentially useful for self-improvement. Asking doesn't hurt.
I think you overestimate the competence of interviewers. They could well give you terrible advice
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I had an eerily similar experience interviewing at a similar public SaaS co recently.
Why is it astounding? They have one of the biggest e-commerce applications in the world. A mobile app for shoppers. A payment system and mobile wallet app. A shipment tracking system. Tax and small business software. They have their own lending arm with its own software. They have multiple frameworks for other development teams to make super customizable e-commerce sites. They support Remix and Tailwind among other software. They have brick and mortar POS systems.
They are like multiple companies in one: Square, Etsy, aspects of Stripe, aspects of Squarespace/Wordpress. Idk I can see why they have a lot of people.
Plus they have an Amazon-scale infrastructure to manage...
I think Amazon is very much on another level in terms of scale. Not trying to be negative about Shopify — they have a very large system to maintain - but Amazon is just on another level.
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