I like it here - Development Manager Shopify Employee Review

5.0
Sep 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The best part of working here is the people: everyone is excited to build good code and solve the problems that are put in front of us every day. I was stagnant in my previous job, and have grown enormously since joining Shopify 4 years ago - both in my programming/craft skills and then also as a manager, a position I decided to try out for the first time (b/c the people around me making "management" appealing - they require very little management).

Cons

The ground can shift relatively quickly here. The company itself is a stable, but the problems we're trying to solve can arise quickly - like the weather. "Thriving on change" is considered healthy here - but if you're looking for "years of stability doing the same job over and over", that may be a challenge for you. But if you like responding to challenges, it's a good thing.

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Pros

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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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