Not the Shopify it used to be - Senior Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
14 Sept 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy place to coast, good work life balance, good opportunities for career growth.

Cons

Compensation is below industry average, especially for those who have been at Shopify for a long period of time. They would rather let long-term employees leave, and turn around and hire people with less experience and context for more money than keeping their tenured employees would cost. Lots of gas lighting from senior leadership in regards to our benefits/compensation. They state "culture" as being a main factor making up for our below average pay with one VP even citing not being called during the delivery of his child as a reason why our culture is so good. If you want to work hard, go to another company that will pay you accordingly. Shopify is a great place to coast with friendly people, but they will not pay you what you are worth ESPECIALLY once you are here.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Recommend
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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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