Invaluable Experience at a Unique Company - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Mar 7, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people at the company are motivated and work with a sense of urgency. Everyone I worked with cared about what they were doing. Standard perks and benefits of a tech company go without saying. Opportunity to be creative to develop and own projects that might be outside the scope of typical day-to-day work.

Cons

Like any fast-paced, high-growth company, work hours can be long and demanding. Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is challenging at times (especially since the work is rewarding), but they do their best to encourage it. Unlimited vacation policy has always rubbed me the wrong way, but to each their own on this.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Remote first culture. If you want freedom of location and a company to truly mean and support it - this is the place.

Cons

Constant change. Nothing to hold on to in this role, compensation, KPI's, tools all change every quarter.

2.0
Jun 29, 2026
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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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