Embarrassing senior leadership - Data Science Manager Shopify Employee Review

1.0
May 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Okay life work balance if you are on the right team. Pay is okay if you joined at the right time.

Cons

Data science is second class citizens at Shopify. You are hired for your ML skills but you will be asked to do BI work and work on adhoc analysis all the time. CEO spent a weekend learning python, smart as he (thinks) he is, he now knows everything data science. Thus he concluded data scientists are useless.

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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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