Billionaires Folly - Sr. Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Jun 5, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- When you are working on something that is on vogue in the current climate it is a great place to work. - Good benefits - Good Pay

Cons

The CEO and SLT have no real direction on what they want the product to be. They get caught up in tech fads and pander to that for a while. First it was crypto, then AI. There is no adhesion or grand vision and it seems to be just an example of billionaires folly.

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Cons

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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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