Nice balance between growth, comp, product and culture - Engineering Manager Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Oct 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Life/work balance is great. As a manager, I can step out without worrying about production fires. Shopify gave me time & opportunities to grow personally & professionally. Between learning perks and growth time it has been a great journey so far. Culture is good too: default to open internally (you get access to all information from day 1). I feel safe challenging peers no matter the title above their head. Shopify is a special place for me because of how many opportunities I got here.

Cons

You have a lot of autonomy (even at Intern/Junior level) and it can be a double-edged sword: it's on you to be pro-active in communicating and pursuing opportunities. Shopify might not be a good place for you if you need hand-holding

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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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