My Interview Experience at Shopee Singapore — Data Scientist

Tips: Resume & Cover Letter Preparation → Coding Test → Manager Interviews → Landing the Offer!

Desmond Yeoh
9 min readFeb 4, 2021
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Hi! I’m Desmond 😄, a Data Scientist (Machine Learning Framework & Infra) in Shopee Singapore. I graduated from the University of Malaya’s Bachelor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence). In this post, I will be sharing the interview process, as well as useful tips that helped me to get to the role!

This was my interview process in Shopee:

  1. Stage 1: Preparing my Resume & Cover Letter
  2. Stage 2: Recruiter’s Interview
  3. Stage 3: Technical Coding Test
  4. Stage 4: Interview with Managers (2 interviews here)

Note: This post is written in Jan 2021 and talks about my interview experience back in Q3 2020. Take this post as a reference! Shopee is fast-paced & quick to adapt to changes. The company continually works on improving its interview process, and the process may be different today than what I went through last year. 😄

Note 2: All views expressed in this post are my own.

It started back in Q3 of 2020, when I came across a number of Shopee job openings on LinkedIn. As an active Shopee…

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Desmond Yeoh

Software Engineer (Data Science) @ Shopee Singapore. Exploring machine learning infra & frameworks to help data scientists work better.