Misleading Job Description - Software Development Manager Shopify Employee Review

3.0
Apr 10, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Autonomy** - Great Pay & Benefits - Lots to learn - Lots of technical variety - Overall company stated culture is great - Good resume booster - Unlimited vacation package that works - Work / Life balance is around or above average - Flexible compensation

Cons

- Lack of direction - Sub teams may not match culture presented by company - More product/project management than people management & mentorship - Have to work to find support or mentorship - Mentorship doesn't come from people you interact with regularly - Everyone cares most about making themselves look good over making good software - Lack of process means a lot of re-doing work or committing to things with a lot of unknowns. Mostly a waterfall style project structure so if you thrive in agile and working closely with teams during the whole process of a feature development then this process will be a big change.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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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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