Shopify Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(94 total reviews)
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Tobias Lütke

43% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Shopify with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 94 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Shopify is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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94 reviews
4.0
Sep 8, 2023

Would recommend

Recommend
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Pros

Great people Interview process worked well, everyone i was working with, are professionals High compensation Great benefits

Cons

Recent layoffs A lot of processes

2.0
Aug 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Extremely smart and kind coworkers. - Excellent devops. - A company culture that is very intentional.

Cons

Shopify is extremely intentional. Often, this is good. For such a large company, there is little bureaucracy. If leadership decides powerful new Macbooks will increase productivity, they make it happen and order the entire company new laptops. However, the flip side is that when they leadership decides on something that negatively impacts employees (e.g. layoffs, re-orgs, banning useful tools and software used by employees, introducing inefficient processes, etc.), they JUST DO IT with absolutely zero transparency or discussion. Worse, the leadership has become extremely detached from employees and are starting to make more of these negative impact decisions. Sadly, I feel like Tobi and leadership aren't just out-of-touch with their employees, but have bought into the whole Elon Musk approach of actually having disdain for their employees.

2.0
Aug 7, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You'll work with some of the nicest and smart people

Cons

Teams turned toxic because of all the SLT quests. You'll need a sabbatical just to get back to a good mental state after working here(if you joined between 2020-2023)

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