Shopify reviews

3.3

45% would recommend to a friend

(3,745 total reviews)
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Tobias Lütke

50% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Shopify has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,745 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shopify employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Jun 10, 2025

Good company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, open development process

Cons

Hard to know what expectations are, little job security

3.0
Jun 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Strong commitment to work life balance- O/T is rare and in my experience was always compensated for with time off/leniency in the next few days. Lots of folks I've worked with had children they had to pick up, appointments in the middle of the day, etc, all without issue. - High caliber engineering team- seriously smart people - The company moves fast on policy, process, and projects- you're not going to suffer from inertia like you might at a more corporate entity - Highly competitive comp by Canadian standards - Strong anti-meeting policy, tons of contribution time for ICs

Cons

- The company moves fast on policy, process, and projects- disruption is a constant, and there will be many periods of frustration throughout your time here where your time is squandered due to a hasty change or last minute decision - It's all remote, and on many teams opportunities to see one another are limited to once a year at the company wide event. I've found that makes it difficult for teams to build cohesion and blow off steam when stressful events happen like a performance related exit. There is the ability to schedule an offsite, but only to accomplish a specific work purpose, and 'people build connections and rapport better in person' is not one of those reasons. - Aggressive performance management makes it difficult to keep the team motivated, I've experienced a strong sense of fear amongst my colleagues, especially in the last few months. - Like many tech companies these days, they're hastily rolling back diversity measures, and indirectly encouraging bias by adding vague hiring criteria that could only be answered using bias, e.g. "Even if someone checks off the boxes, would you fight for them to be on your team?"

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