Cool place to work - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

5.0
May 8, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Top of the class people

Cons

Expect software developers to be oncall 24h

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Shopify Response
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Hey, Thanks for taking the time to leave a review! I completely agree - it’s the people here that really make Shopify an amazing place to work. As for being on call - yeah, that is tough. I understand that teams have created flexible hours and long rotations so that on-call shifts like that only happen once every couple of months, but point taken that it’s still tough being on call like that, especially if a lot of pings come in. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that overall you're enjoying life at Shopify. Thanks for making time to leave a review!

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