Poor leadership - Staff Developer Shopify Employee Review

1.0
May 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Some teams are amazing (in terms of people and/or project/domain)

Cons

- Opposite to the pros, some teams are really bad (in terms of people and/or project). Is kinda luck where are you going to land. - Compensation is OKish. Don't expect high salaries. Shopify thinks that it is Amazon size, try to play as competitor, but pays easily 50% less. - Impact review is random. I worked for 3 years, I have around 4 impact reviews cycles, each of them was unique and random. - Top-down policy. Even your lead (and some times the lead of your lead) is at the dark all times. Things changes for no reason and no planning, in a very top-down manner. - Company thinks it is global, but it is badly managed. I had to work constant after hours to compensate and talk with team members spread around America, Europe and Asia. And if you don't do that? Well, wait for the impact review, as you will be slow, very slow on deliveries.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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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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