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They had no internship opportunities open
This overstates what was unavailable at Shopify. Julia Fedorin’s own account says Shopify had internship openings at the time; what did not exist was a marketing intern role specifically.
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Julia Fedorin’s own retrospective about landing the Shopify role contradicts the blanket claim that Shopify had no internship opportunities open.
In her April 23, 2025 LinkedIn post, she says she decided to make the video after she saw Shopify Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar “post about internship openings.” She also clarifies the real novelty of her case: Shopify didn’t have a marketing intern role, so she was “pitching a brand new one that didn’t even exist yet.” In other words, internship opportunities existed at Shopify; the unusual part was that there was no marketing internship opening for her desired role.
That is also consistent with Shopify’s official internship site, which describes an active Engineering & Data Internship program and lists multiple internship tracks.
So the accurate version would be closer to: Shopify did not have a marketing internship opening for her, but it did have internship openings in other areas.
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- How I Landed a Marketing Internship at Shopify in Under 24 Hours.
"I wasn't planning to make one for Shopify... until I saw Farhan Thawar, Head of Engineering, post about internship openings." She also writes: "they didn't even have a marketing intern role" and that she was "pitching a brand new one that didn't even exist yet."
- Shopify Engineering & Data Internship Program Page - Intern Microsite
Shopify’s official internship site says, "If you have a passion, we have an Engineering & Data Internship to match" and lists multiple internship opportunities, including Applied Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Data Engineer Intern, and Software Engineer Intern.