Shiny from the outside, toxic on the inside - Senior Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Aug 5, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- tonnes of perks: SWAG, lots of monetary benefits - it's big, so maybe you can shuffle to find a team you like

Cons

- toxic top-down culture: leadership says a lot of pretty words, but they don't actually want your feedback - the toxicity is driven by the CEO - mandatory on-call - weird imbalance between "how good we say we are, and what we say we can do" vs what we can actually get done

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Cons

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Pros

Base pay is on the higher end for the role

Cons

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