Great start but not forever. - Anonymous employee Shopify Employee Review
4.0
Nov 5, 2014
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
- Great coworkers
- Great work environment
Cons
- Unclear workplace "rules". At one point it was suggested you can work from home, then not, then again you could.
- Expected to work overtime without overtime pay
Shopify Response
11y
Thank you very much for taking the time to provide feedback. Our HR and culture teams value your input as we strive to improve life at Shopify.
- 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
