May 5, 2023
Shopify Sr. Software Engineer reviews
3.5
66% would recommend to a friend
Tobias Lütke
43% approve of CEO
47% positive business outlook
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Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Shopify with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 93 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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93 reviews
1.0
Feb 17, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
- "We shouldn't let Tobi speak at earnings calls; mumbling, hard to listen to, rambling and completely incoherent" - Kaz is the world's biggest example of a kid who got bullied and then went on to bully everyone as an adult." - "Kaz is the worst human I've ever met in real life" - "Shopify is like a restaurant, appetizer is fake transparency (company culture), sprinkled with invisible openness. Entre is non-existent career growth, work 40% more for less pay, covered with illegal salary reductions and sauteed compensation wallet lies. Dessert is fired for PIP ice cream and frozen promos." - "Switching to Meta workplace over slack is the single worst move the company could have done, erasing millions of dollars of insider intel overnight and destroying company culture. Almost worse than Kaz closing all meetings yet his calendar has the most meetings in the company." - "Shopify is replacing support with thousands of BPO vendors from Philippines, India and Greece, wherever they can find the cheapest labor. The tickets I get from taskus VA's are so bad, it takes a whole team to fix their mistakes." - "why is Shopify not donating money to Turkey/Syria? They use Ukraine as a clout piece in team meetings, but it took them months to even support that cause. Leadership doesn't care, they only love virtue signalling" - "Are you quiet quitting? I'm acting my wage. Why get 40% better if there's no raises?" - "I'm quiet quitting because they didn't pay me what was owed, lying about comp raises, freezing promos and raises while still sending their leadership teams out to expensive international bursts." - "8 managers in 1 year" - Are execs trying to tank the company, or is the air that thin up there?" - The future of support is dead, run away" - "Shopify is replacing support with the cheapest alternative it can find leaving zero opportunity for actual support staff with increased workload, decreased pay and compensation. Wake up and get moving, this ship is like the Titanic and there's no rafts left for you" - "get rid of Kaz" - "stop censoring us" - I have zero trust in Shopify" - "Kaz is a true succubus draining control of the company away from Tobi drip by drip" - "Kaz is rude to people for no reason. Chaos monkey is how he operates daily, letting his fortune go to his head because he's not a pleasant person" - "Kaz is a goober without a leadership bone in his body. He makes decisions purely based on clout and doesn't care about anyone else. His personal values do not match Shopify of old and he's slowly but effectively dismantling company culture" - "I just fell down the rabbit hole of Kaz and his wife's twitter...wow. They really are hateful people" - I hear a lot of people on blind about how kaz is a horrible exec. drink every time he over uses the F-word to appear cool in company meetings. He started playing beethoven thinking he discovered it"
Cons
- "Being a woman at Shopify is terrible" - 123 comments from women at Shopify lamenting how terrible the work culture is filled with toxic males and "lack of opportunity, casual misogyny, smugness from incompetent dudes, bullying and lack of consequences" - "As someone who has raised issues with HR, with evidence, with support from coworkers, I can tell you they don't do anything about problems that don't affect the company" - The amount of pre-levelled up men I have to work with is maddening, and now with promos being frozen, any kind of rectifying the issue is a no-go" - "in support, many women need to change their names to a male or gender neutral name to prevent gendered merchant abuse...because I couldn't take being asked if I was single, asked my age, called a C word, having guys threaten to harm themselves, starve themselves if payments weren't taken off hold. A risk specialist once laughed at me when I suggested to use a female name saying 'kick them off shopify payments and sign it with Amy? Yea Right" - "being an employee at Shopify is terrible. It's literally the worst place I've ever worked as a woman. Gave my notice last week, such a weight lifted." - "Shopify used to be quick to promote people, especially at lower levels. We have a backlog of hundreds of people with frozen promos for the last 18 months." - "Shopify career page says: 'Increase your compensation as your positive impact on Shopify's mission grows' but this hasn't been true for years for anyone that didn't get a comp adjustment and its not true now for high performers who were promised a promo or raise." - "It wouldn't be so bad if they just came out and said 'we're cutting costs to please investors so we're freezing comp' but the lying and gaslighting is just so frustrating." - "can't wait to hear what cringe buzzword they vomit out to explain why people were promised promos won't actually be getting a promo" - "Shopify denied equal and fair compensation increases for all deserving staff and then turned around and gave that money to Mr. Beast." " Shopify gave me a forced PIP just to deny compensation raises as a cost-cutting measure."
2.0
Feb 2, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Has great technical problems at their scale, some things that are 10-100x ahead of any other company out there
Cons
Leadership has lost the plot, inflated job titles leading to loss of tenured employees, remote work has been handled poorly and is high friction due to fragmentation of knowledge, order, clarity
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