Not all it's cracked up to be - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Aug 10, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice, clean offices and good benefits plan. Met some kind, humble and very smart people I remain friends with.

Cons

Witnessed insane amounts of wastefulness that explains why the company is not profitable. Lots of people wandering around without real jobs and no management because employees are encouraged to embrace "ambiguity". Unhealthy competition between employees to be part of the next "hot" product or gain visibility/popularity within the company bubble. They think they are more progressive than other tech giants but management is still primarily white men and the company culture/values reflect that. If you want to know what it's like to work there just watch Silicon Valley: It's exactly like Hooli.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Remote first culture. If you want freedom of location and a company to truly mean and support it - this is the place.

Cons

Constant change. Nothing to hold on to in this role, compensation, KPI's, tools all change every quarter.

2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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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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