Room for improvement - Software Developer Shopify Employee Review

2.0
Sep 15, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- WLB is pretty great - People are really nice on my immediate team

Cons

- Compensation is severely below market (we've been told that we are getting paid with "growth opportunities" as part of our total compensation and that is why monetary is low) - New leadership is disappointing and the company is feeling growing pains - High turnover due to poor handling of the two pointed mentioned above - "Work Anywhere" is a marketing scheme that has severe limitations. For example, relocating from Canada to USA will result in your compensation to be low-balled.

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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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