Shopify Reviews

Pros

- work life balance - skilled coworkers - opportunities to learn and grow - can collaborate with people on and outside of your team - they provide $$ and equipment to help with home office setup, which is great cause we're remote - no commute - opportunities to travel with team to meet irl.

Cons

- monolith that takes a while to build and run locally, and hard to get it working consistently with thousands of devs committing code - worried that hiring too quickly will change culture

Pros

- It's the only company that's ever truly valued my skillset and actually taken my feedback into consideration. - Unlimited PTO isn't just lip service. I'm going to end up taking ~5 weeks this year and that's not including Holiday's or summer Friday's (we've been given all summer Friday's off...it's great) - Remote first. No plans to return to an office (this can definitely be a Con for some people) - Business is booming. I don't worry about getting laid off. My role continues to grow as the company grows.

Cons

- We probably aren't paying top of market in the US. I can almost certainly get paid more working at a FAANG. I believe we're revising comp right now, but I don't have particularly high expectations. Pay certainly isn't terrible, but there's room for improvement. - Senior leadership can sometimes come across as callous when addressing employee concerns. I get it to some degree (people complaining about work from home still when we've known about it for over a year, for example), but I think they could strike a softer tone sometimes. - There's a handful of people who have been promoted into positions that they simply aren't equipped for anymore. We've scaled quickly and hired a ton of great people in the process. As a result, you sometimes have really strong teams led by really weak Managers. This has definitely contributed to some (not all) of the attrition we're seeing

Pros

Fully remote work, amazing benefits, structured onboarding, and some opportunity to move to other roles in the company. The platform is the industry leader for eCommerce and growing exponentially. Having Shopify on your resume will open doors and provide you instant ecom cred. Lots of opportunity to learn and level up your knowledge base. Depending on your team, region and manager, you could have a lot of autonomy.

Cons

This is an intense role with a lot of ambiguity and a huge scope. Expect to work more than 40 hours a week and constant change, you’re never finished, there’s always more to do. Management spews a lot of rhetoric around wellness and work/life balance but at the end of the day it’s just talk. If you’re not performing , expect to be scrutinized. Most measurements of success in this role are subjective, and as a company Shopify is very much one where who you know matters. Pay is below standard for a company of this size and a role this intense. There are huge discrepancies in pay between employees preforming the same role at the same level, depending on if they were hired externally or internally, when and where. All external communications are recorded and reviewed, so be careful what you say. Recently the role has shifted to be much more “salesy” with product adoption and upselling becoming the top objectives internally. With the recent explosion of growth Shopify is acting more and more like it’s competitors who it tries to differentiate from than as the disrupter and highly ethical company it was a few years ago.