Toxic Toxic Toxic - Senior Backend Software Engineer Shippo Employee Review

1.0
Mar 4, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive salary and working with golfing are as the positives go

Cons

Very toxic work environment. Product is a house of cards. Management provides a terrible lack of management while at the same time micro managing you. Nobody at the company knows what they are doing and are very green. The entire product is duct taped together into 2 massive mono repos filled to the brim with tech debt that leadership could care less about. Every new feature request is almost impossible due to the existing tech debt and design decisions. Tech debt makes every bug fix is a game of whac-a-mole introducing 5 more bugs. Leadership also doesn't trust their employees, withholding access to all cloud resources (even in lower environments) making releasing and testing new feature very hard. All new tech decisions and db changes have to go through weekly meetings where you have to present to the entire technical company your idea, even a simple data migration. Not only does this provide a bottleneck and slow down development it fosters and promotes negative treatment of peoples ideas. There are quite a few loud and rude people who will stab at you with no thought. The actual product development is an afterthought - leadership just wants to keep raking in money from investors, whom if they knew the real state of the company would pull back their investments. It's only a matter of time before they are not able to keep up with their competition and their existing code base won't be able to support any more feature without breaking the entire app.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Apr 9, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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