Not The Worst Place I've Ever Worked, But Very Close - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

2.0
17 Apr 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free breakfast and lunch is great

Cons

A team of over 20 people worked on a project for over a year and a half, it changed names 3 times, got delayed by the CEO the day before it was supposed to launch because he hated the name and then the project got killed all together and now the team just posts videos to YouTube. I think it was really hard for a tech company to plant itself inside the media sphere.

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5.0
10 June 2026
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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.

2.0
29 June 2026
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Pros

- Kind and talented co-workers - Generous AI token spend - Fairly transparent company (has been getting less transparent over the years) - Lots of opportunity for impact

Cons

- Product management discipline is quite lacking since the new CTO joined - Microsoft culture is adding more chaos and stress, and causing projects to actually go slower - Managers are afraid to tell the truth to Mikhail about the loopholes in engineering; they just want to look good, so they rush their teams to ship crap - Top engineering leaders are moving out of management roles or leaving the company - Tobi used to be far more involved in ensuring a high engineering bar, but seems to have handed over the reins to the new Microsoft regime

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