We study the relation between simply and universally interpolating sequences for the holomorphic Hardy spaces $H^p(\mathbb{ D}^d)$ on the polydisc. In dimension $d=1$ a sequence is simply interpolating if and only if it is universally interpolating, due to a classical theorem of Shapiro and Shields. In dimension $d\ge2$, Amar showed that Shapiro and Shields' theorem holds for $H^p(\mathbb{ D}^d)$ when $p \geq 4$. In contrast, we show that if $1\leq p \leq 2$ there exist simply interpolating sequences which are not universally interpolating.
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