Steer Clear - Data Scientist Shopify Employee Review

1.0
May 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

100% remote work will be nice if that's your thing, Lifestyle spending is nice as you can reimburse your gym membership

Cons

Leadership has completely lost it. Hired thousands of people in the last year only to lay them off when they realized they have no idea what they're doing with strategy and bleeding money. Diversity and Inclusion, or lack thereof, is shameful. Personal development is non-existent - no effort was made to improve the skills/tooling of my organization. Execs are patronizing and pseudointellectual to an extent that I got secondhand embarrassment on a few occasions. Administrative wings (HR, Comms, Culture, etc.) make sweeping, unilateral strategic decisions that negatively impact huge sections of the company.

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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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