Good benefits - Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

1.0
22 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits are good, including an allowance for lifestyle, sports and hobbies.

Cons

Work-life balance will depend on whether director-level leadership cares about people working in their teams or not. Career advancement will heavily depend on whether one lands on a team that is working on a shiny new feature and whether the manager cares about one's career advancement. Many managers are not trained lead people, they are for the most part software developers who got promoted due to building systems, not for their leadership aptitude.

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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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