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Shopify's loop is unusually lightweight and behavior-heavy: a cognitive assessment and a long "life story" values interview gate most candidates before any real coding. The signature technical round is a 75-minute AI-assisted pair-programming session where bringing your own AI coding tool (Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, Copilot) is encouraged — the real test is communication, reviewing AI-generated code, edge-case handling, and testing rigor rather than algorithmic difficulty. MLE loops add ML modeling and ML system-design rounds built around Shopify's own product-taxonomy, forecasting, and recommendation problems.

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Mars Rover / Robot Controller (CLI)

Build a command-line app that controls a robot/rover on a 2D grid: it starts at a position facing a direction and accepts commands to turn left/right and move forward, reporting its position and heading. The single most common Shopify pair-programming prompt; difficulty comes from the follow-ups and the design discussion, not the base problem.

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