Toxic, narcissistic, and fake leadership - Marketing Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Dec 20, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-Remote -WFH setup -Nice peers (trauma bonded though)

Cons

I’ve worked for a range of different big and small companies over the past decade and this is definitely most toxic environment I’ve ever been in. Normally, you have a honeymoon phase at the start of a job and love everything, but I could tell something was off from Day 1. The leadership is toxic and will burn you out. They’ll notice you’re working late hours constantly, but will turn a blind eye and won’t care when you flag it. They’ll call you horrible names and make inappropriate comments (always verbally so that there’s no written record) that leave your friends and family shocked about how a company enables this. They’re narcissistic and have high egos as well, so they’ll take any chance to put you down if it helps to cover themselves. Honestly, I don’t know how else to describe a lot of the leaders I’ve encountered here on the marketing side other than being pure evil. If you’re a terrible human, this is the place to work because Shopify clearly allows these types of people to thrive without any consequences!

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Cons

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Cons

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