Demonstrate Git and build workflow
Company: Shopify
Role: Machine Learning Engineer
Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Demonstrate your end-to-end Git and tooling workflow for this take-home. Given a repository URL, show the exact steps and commands to prepare your IDE and SDK, clone the repository, create and switch to a feature branch, initialize the project and build from scratch, add and run unit tests, commit with meaningful messages, push to the remote branch, and open a pull request; also describe how you would configure CI to run the tests on each push.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates proficiency with version control workflows, local development and build toolchains, continuous integration configuration, and reproducible testing practices in the context of a Machine Learning Engineer working on a Python project.
