Great learnings, confused management - Senior Frontend Developer Shopify Employee Review

4.0
May 16, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Very very smart people to learn from and be inspired by - Exposure to huge scale systems - Not afraid to change and experiment with new technologies - Nice salaries (for Engineering, at least) - Decent perks - No micromanagement, flexible work hours - D90 (work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days) - Unlimited vacation

Cons

- Senior Leadership (C-level and direct reports) seem to get bored of the status quo once or twice a year and completely change everything - Often you might change teams because of a re-org and this may or may not impact your performance review progress - Promotions were once frequent, but now seem hard to come by

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
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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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