Could be great but leadership is ruining the company - Data Scientist Shopify Employee Review

1.0
Aug 28, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are nice and interesting people usually. Core product is decent and makes money.

Cons

Leadership is incompetent and running the company into the ground. Poor decision making, poor execution, no vision or strategy. Creating a culture of toxic positivity and no trust. Leadership also lies contantly without consequences. They lied about lay-offs, they lied about compensation. Weird cultish founder-worship culture. Top down micromanagement that leaves no autonomy for most people. Poor people managers is the norm. Data roles in particular are awful. The few good data leaders left right after the new CTO joined (a coincidence of course). The data environment and tooling are just atrocious. Data is treated as a second-class citizen and people ignore data when it doesn't fit their narrative. Talent bar is very inconsistent.

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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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