Depends on which team you land in - Senior Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

3.0
Jan 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- interesting work, plenty of opportunities to learn and grow - access to cutting-edge AI tools - opportunity to work with very highly skilled and talented people

Cons

- the company culture has shifted over the past few years, and not in a positive direction - toxic culture in some teams, with many people only interested in furthering their own careers rather than growing and being successful as a team - company glorifies "rockstar" developers with no people/teamwork skills - constant changes often disrupt productive flows - work/life balance is often ignored; many teams don't accommodate people based in different timezones and expect them to work late hours

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Amazing company with incredible product

Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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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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