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Building a Tiny URL Shortener with AI-Assisted Coding

ShopifySoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Jan 2026

I interviewed for a Senior SDE role at Shopify. The interviewer was very easy to talk to and things went smoothly. The problem was to write a local tiny URL shortener, similar to a LeetCode-style problem. We discussed the following points together: Input validation: checking whether the input URL is well-formed. Encoding: use an MD5 hash, and we discussed how to handle hash collisions. How to sto…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jan 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.