Low level Management - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review

3.0
May 8, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture, love that it is considered one team , crusher of corporate egos. Rapid Growth, great group of like minded, fun people. Great benefits & perks.

Cons

Training was a little off as they did a huge hire, things were talked about before the courses were taken, mentors straight out of Guru land that had no idea what mentoring is. Mid management very green, seemed forced to push us to 3 chats which in this case is a end result of Merchants given the wrong advice as the time is not there to properly research the situations for inexperienced Guru’s. Just think over 100 new hires doing this. Short breaks only one 30 min break for a 8 hour shift for a company that considers itself a life balance kinda compan. Gurus need proper breaks at least 45 min to regroup & clear their heads as this is not an easy job. Very “merchant obsessed “ to the point where gurus have to put up with abusive merchants. I don’t think the Gurus get paid enough to put up with that.

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Cons

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2.0
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Cons

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