Good starting salary but poor management and no growth - Software Engineer Intern Shopify Employee Review

2.0
6 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

pretty good starting salary for Canada good people nice office

Cons

management is all eyes no ears, can't really move to full time since apparently you need to sell your soul and free time just for a chance to be considered. Expect to have a billion tabs opens and juggling 5 tickets at once with the manager pinging you every hour to ask if its done and berate you that you are not using AI more to get it done faster no career progression, only seniors are hired everyone else fired.

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5.0
2 Jul 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
29 Jun 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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