Culture used to be a plus before it became a public company - Data Scientist Shopify Employee Review

3.0
21 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most managers are great, the stories of the time before the IPO, when the culture was more anarchic and employees more devoted to creating a great product are also nice to listen to.

Cons

It grew too fast during the pandemic. Thousands of employees were hired over a couple of years and laid off during the next couple of years. The president lied to - ineffectively - curb the rumours anticipating the 2023 layoff. Teams are remote by design since 2020 and thus spread over multiple cities/countries without a kernel geographically located somewhere. It’s unclear whether this was a good move.

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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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