Great company full of very smart people - Staff Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Feb 10, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- My experience as an engineer has been comparable with the one I had working for Google, that is, there are lots of perks and the company is very engineer-centric - They really care about you as a person. From the top of the line development machines to ergonomic chairs, and you can expense anything related to your personal development - Lots of perks. Work/life balance is great as well.

Cons

- Fully remote. Although for some people this is a huge benefit. Personally I like to be around other people. The company organises events every now and then so that people can meet in person. - The code base is a bit hard to follow due to lack of comments and documentation.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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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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