Best company for designers in Toronto - Product Designer Shopify Employee Review

5.0
24 Sept 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

• Extremely strong design culture • High compensation • Highly specialized creative roles (content strategy, illustration, UX, visual, motion, front-end UX etc) • Highly interconnected work

Cons

If you want to wear multiple hats and work multiple roles (eg. design and code, or illustration and UX) it's unlikely to be able to do that at such a large company. That's more of a scrappy, start-up work style.

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5.0
2 July 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

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2.0
29 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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