Amazing Place for Self-Discovery and Development - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

4.0
Dec 29, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Freedom to tackle problems in ways that work for you - Ability to try new initiatives to reach goals - Opportunity within the company regardless of education/experience - Amazing benefits and yearly salary reviews based on impact - Development opportunities - Supportive, likeminded people that you work with

Cons

- Highly competitive - Fast paced demand results in burnout in many people - Not enough consistency in expectations, which results in tire-spinning - Currently in the teenage stage of a lifetime company, so there's lots of growing pains

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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
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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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