Overworked, Underpaid - Launch Engineer Shopify Employee Review

3.0
Jun 3, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- good people - good benefits & full coverage - additional lifestyle spending account & perks - team is independent so you can work alone a majority of the time - decent salary if you want to cruise under the radar

Cons

-half the team acts like they are support because we have no metrics to measure our success on the team -team is growing without direction -pay band has a significant gap due to pre-existing teams combining -lack of leadership experience -misalignment internally on job levels and expectation -some but minimal direction on career path

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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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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