Do not come here, I repeat do not come here... - Marketing Shopify Employee Review

1.0
25 July 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Remote is nice, the people you work with day to day can be awesome. The pay is decent, not great but decent.

Cons

Trying to get anything done here is incredibly difficult. They say to think outside the box but when you try to do something new you hear "that's not really the Shopify way". Unless the idea comes from management who has no idea what is and isn't possible, but if it can't be done or it doesn't go well it is your fault. Even though every step you do needs to be approved by someone above you, so nothing you ever do is really your own work. But if it doesn't go well it is your fault. Also people will just be gone, I cannot count the amount of great people I worked with and would be in the middle of a project with who would just be laid off with no idea who would take up the slack, which caused projects to get stalled or just die. Which once again comes back around on you when it wasn't successful or didn't have impact. Do not come to Shopify. You might get lucky and get on a good team with a manager that won't micromanage you and gaslight you during your time. But it is more likely that it will happen to you also. Also the new promotions and pay raises are a joke. You will not get either.

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5.0
29 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Very collaborative, even across team boundaries - Very healthy work-life balance culture - Lots of room to grow, explore, and be impactful - Remote-friendly - Fun

Cons

- Seeks constant growth and visibility, which can be difficult to achieve depending on the circumstances - Internal documentation can be hit-or-miss - One of Shopify's tenets is "thrive on change" and so there can be a lot of change (org restructures, project scope, etc.)

2.0
31 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

The work itself is genuinely exciting. Shopify is doing cutting-edge work in AI search visibility and GEO that very few companies are touching at this scale. The tooling is excellent, the problems are interesting, and the peers are talented, collaborative, and generous with their time. If you're passionate about where search is heading, the craft-level work here is hard to beat.

Cons

The management experience on the Growth Marketing / SEO team did not match the quality of the work. Feedback was inconsistent (positive in meetings, critical in private messages) which made it difficult to know where you actually stood. Issues that were never flagged in real time were later consolidated into a formal performance document, which felt predetermined rather than developmental. When I raised concerns professionally about the communication dynamic, the relationship shifted noticeably. I've spoken to others who experienced a similar pattern on this team. The culture says it values direct feedback, but in practice, giving feedback upward was treated very differently than receiving it.

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