Shopify Senior Data Scientist Interview Experience — Online Assessment, Then a Chart-Reading Phone Screen

Shopify·Data Scientist·Oct 2026
Technical ScreenOnline AssessmentSenior+Rejectedeasy

A friend referred me. I thought I'd get the SQL questions that were posted on the forum, but instead I got an online assessment plus a phone screen. The online assessment was half behavioral and half IQ-type questions. The phone screen was all PPT slides, where you look at the charts and talk through them.

The first question was simple SQL plus a data table, and they asked what the result would look like. There was one error in the SQL and I was asked to find it. The rest were things like: given some data, draw a chart by hand; given a simple confusion matrix, calculate the false positive rate and similar numbers by hand; how to interpret the results of an A/B test; how to interpret a retention data table, and so on.

The questions are not hard, but I feel some interviewers may have very high expectations, so answer carefully. Also, it is best to bring a calculator. Good luck to everyone, and I hope you all land offers soon.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Shopify
Role
Data Scientist
Level
Senior+
Rounds
Online Assessment → Technical Screen
Outcome
Rejected
Difficulty
easy
Interview date
Oct 2026
Questions from this interview
4 questions

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