Rudderless management and executive team - Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

1.0
May 14, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, great benefits, awesome scale of projects

Cons

Management is a joke. They don't actually solicit any feedback from peers for their feedback cycles so you could get glowing reviews for months straight then suddenly get a bad impact rating out of the blue. So much wasted time on things that shouldn't be needed. Everything is built in house so they have to spend an absurd amount of time doing simple things instead of just using frameworks or tools that have already solved the problem. Way too much hands on intervention by the CEO. It was a running joke that you couldn't get through a product review he was involved in without some product or technical change he'd insist on despite not having anywhere near enough product or technical context for it to matter. But everyone always did it because it was understood you don't say no. Made everyone sit through 4 days of meetings after the layoffs in 2022 where the executive team congratulated themselves on how good of a job they did firing 1000 people. The level of tone deafness on display was disappointing. Basically shrugged when LGBTQ employees expressed concerns about platforming obvious hate speech organizations. Would delete any public slack messages posted about it to silence discussion.

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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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