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      Great ICs and CEO, rapidly declining culture due to Microsoft invasion - Senior Backend Engineer Shopify Employee Review

      2.0
      Jun 9, 2026
      Senior backend engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Legacy Shopify ICs and lower-level managers are excellent and generally quite nice (company's Canadian after all) Caliber of engineering talent is generally high Dev-friendly stack (Ruby/Rails) Bleeding-edge AI adoption with unlimited token budget

      Cons

      Recently brought over a CTO from Microsoft: he brought with him a lot of not-at-all-nice people who are highly political, frequently rude/condescending to legacy Shopifolk, and make consistently bad/dev-hostile technical decisions Bleeding-edge AI adoption is being used to justify unreasonably increased expectations

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      5.0
      Jul 2, 2026
      Partnerships
      Recommend
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      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazing company with incredible product

      Cons

      None that I can think of

      2.0
      Jun 29, 2026
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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