Used to be great, became toxic - Programs Lead Shopify Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salaries for Canadian standards, very good benefits, beautiful offices, sometimes interesting work

Cons

Terrible leadership of entitled and out-of-touch tech bros, a cult-like internal culture, unhealthy pace of work and expectations, gaslighting and cut-throat style of management

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

None that I can think of

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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