Used to be great, going downhill - Staff Developer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Jul 15, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Modern tech stack Good internal tools Used to have great culture

Cons

No data-driven decisions, the company claims to be “merchant obsessed” but fired everyone that worked with ux research and does nothing to sove merchant complaints. Product decisions around new features are top-down because “SLT knows what the merchant need better than the merchants” Culture used to be great, but has been going downhill since we went remote only. We had lunches, yoga, massages, haircuts, beer on tap in the office, etc for free. Now we have very low budgets to get together once or so per year, and not a penny can be used to buy alcohol. Diversity used to be a priority, but a lot of people from minority groups quit/were fired and replaced by straight white tech bros. We used to have ask me anything sessions were SLT would actually respond to tough questions, and much more transparency. Now, slack channels get censored, SLT blatantly lies to us or ignore questions all the time

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Cons

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Pros

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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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