From a great to a horrible culture in 2 seconds - Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

1.0
Apr 16, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Shopifolks are in general great.

Cons

Management has gotten worse and worse over time. Not sure if it's a general thing now, but I used to have a great manager, then it came a new manager that loved to micro manage and do busy work and give us "busy work". They wouldn't leave us in peace to do our job. It was most stressful experience I've had in a work environment. Micromanaging. Senior leadership is just terrible. a bunch of mi-bilionairs thar lost touch with reality.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote first culture. If you want freedom of location and a company to truly mean and support it - this is the place.

Cons

Constant change. Nothing to hold on to in this role, compensation, KPI's, tools all change every quarter.

2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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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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