What a mess - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

1.0
26 Nov 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- The people who actually do the work are hard working, kind, creative, and deeply intelligent - Name recognition gets you far

Cons

Leadership here is a joke. Constant re-orgs, bell curve performance reviews with quotas that turn into excuses to lay people off. All to cover up for the fact that leadership doesn't know what it's doing, with no regard for the employee lives it affects. There are constantly new initiatives launched before an old one has really been given the resources and time it requires. Get ready to have all of your work paused for 1-2 quarters and then try to prove your impact in a performance review after not being allowed to move forward on anything. Have fun explaining to the COO who "just wants to get to know your department" what it is you do in 5 minutes or less. Leadership just has zero EQ.

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Pros

Remote first culture. If you want freedom of location and a company to truly mean and support it - this is the place.

Cons

Constant change. Nothing to hold on to in this role, compensation, KPI's, tools all change every quarter.

1.0
17 June 2026
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Pros

High comp and AI forward. One of the few remote places left.

Cons

Upper management basically openly disdains the “working class”, and it’s a major jostle among the VP and Director level for currying favor with the CEO. The investment in AI tooling is smart but also the C suite majorly suffers from AI psychosis, it’s embarrassing, actually.

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