Revenue org dying, killed upside for high performers - Senior Solutions Engineer Shopify Employee Review

3.0
Jan 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Strong engineering and product culture with talented colleagues. Flexible remote work policies. Good autonomy and opportunities to tinker with state-of-the-art AI tooling. Technical challenges are interesting if you're early in your career.

Cons

Company is in cost-cutting, share price optimization mode. Slashed comp structures, wild org changes, role restructuring—all designed to limit upside and cut expenses. Revenue org got gutted: replaced individual quotas with team quotas, destroying earning potential for top performers—my potential comp is dropping by at least $50k CAD despite positive "Mastery" rating and strong performance. Benefits getting trimmed, salaries squeezed, constant reorganizations that conveniently cap compensation growth. New customer pipeline is bone dry—mature market, limited growth opportunities. Career progression unclear unless you pivot to management. No path to meaningful comp growth, external hires get way more than internal folks.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

- Kind and talented co-workers - Generous AI token spend - Fairly transparent company (has been getting less transparent over the years) - Lots of opportunity for impact

Cons

- Product management discipline is quite lacking since the new CTO joined - Microsoft culture is adding more chaos and stress, and causing projects to actually go slower - Managers are afraid to tell the truth to Mikhail about the loopholes in engineering; they just want to look good, so they rush their teams to ship crap - Top engineering leaders are moving out of management roles or leaving the company - Tobi used to be far more involved in ensuring a high engineering bar, but seems to have handed over the reins to the new Microsoft regime

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