Shopify Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(93 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 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
4.0
Oct 12, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good mission, good engineers (for the most part)

Cons

Company growing fast Product managers are mostly all non-technical and come from non-tech companies where engineers don't make decisions, so they expect to make all the decisions here too.

5.0
Sep 20, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Low-stress projects - Very Generous benefits package - Flexibility to grow in career - So many amazing people to learn from - In for the long term - Transparent Internally, Secrecy Externally - Regular inclusive talks, Townhalls and sessions to keep up-to-date with whats happening globally

Cons

- So much context to consume - Massive core application that takes a while to navigate the code

5.0
Sep 16, 2021

Awesome place to work at

Recommend
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Pros

- Nice people to be around who are always there to help - Great diversity and your ideas are well respected - People first culture

Cons

- Context you need to do your job is a lot so sometimes you spend a lot of time gathering those contexts.

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